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If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Interactive Performance: Support far more than 40 simultaneous users

Large customers support multiple teams in around-the-clock operations across multiple disciplines. While not all users will be focused on the same elements within the UI (spreading themselves by role across Incident, Inventory, Performance, Automa...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Create a DL option for Anomaly Detection Alerts

As FinOps Analysts, we are receiving anomaly alerts that need to be forwarded to FinOps champions in each business unit. We aim to automate the distribution of these alerts to various stakeholders. Therefore, anomaly alerts should be filtered by b...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 1 Planned for future release

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Issues with ITP rows with prior months data

In ITP today, users can delete a row that has data in prior months and when a row is duplicated, prior months populate as well as future months
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ADM option to publish to reference tables

We are not using ADM for our ITP publishes because we also have to manually publish our project lists to tables in TBM studio
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release