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Provide Store and Forward Feature for Message Bus Gateway

Need the same capability as other Netcool/Omnibus gateways for the Message Bus Gateway to store and forward the event data when the targeted message bus is unavailable.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Customisable Alerts by Frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)

Allow customers to create and manage cost or usage alerts in Cloudability with flexible scheduling options daily, weekly, or monthly. Daily alerts: Trigger based on thresholds or anomalies detected in a single day’s spend or usage. Weekly alerts: ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

Consistency between BM statement names and how they are displayed

I have created Business Mapping with capitalisation e.g. Account-Operations or BT, but when utilising BM in dashboards they all appear formatted by Cloudability to all lower case . This inconsistency is confusing for users and capitalisation is us...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Enable Cloudability Rightsizing to Ingest Memory Usage Directly from Azure Platform Metrics (without DCR/AMA)

Currently, Cloudability’s Azure rightsizing recommendations require memory usage data to be ingested via DCR (Data Collection Rules) and AMA (Azure Monitor Agent) deployments on workloads. While this works, it creates unnecessary deployment overhe...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

In Targetprocess (Apptio), the Number custom field type is limited to a precision of up to 2 decimal places. I want it should have a provision to expand it to 4 decimal places.

It will definitely help my Business users.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Include Suspend Actions in Container Pods Automation Policy

Currently, the automation policy for container pods includes only the "Move" action in the automation workflow. However, we've received feedback from customers who prefer not to see "Suspend" actions for container pods in the Action Center. To add...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Add email subscription option for Cloudability Optimize Rightsizing Recommendations

Problem:Right now a user can only retrieve rightsizing recommendations relevant to them by going into the Optimize Rightsizing UI, applying relevant filters to narrow it down to infrastructure thei own and seeing if there are any results. This is ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration