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Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Report memory used in AWS RDS to reports and dashboards

Seeing the amount of used memory alongside CPU would help customers make an informed decision around rightsizing and other utilization / consumption metrics as to how best optimize their workloads.
18 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add support of markdown or HTLM syntax in the Apptio BI text box widget

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add hyperlinks, color by creating the message in other tool then past in the text box an...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Can we get pod level (or) workload level cost details in reports just like we get these details from the container insights section ?

Hi Team, In container Insights section, we get data as per cluster, namespace, workload, and pod level if we drill down. But in CLDY reports section, we can only use namespace to filter, do we have functionality where we can get workload or pod le...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
13 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Making "Your Month so Far" report more realistic in Current Month tab (Budget & Forecasting)

At the beginning of each month, the Estimated Monthly Cost and the % difference compared to last month often show unrealistically positive downward trend. However, as the days progress, the trend usually shifts and the numbers get worse. This earl...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Switching Monthly Conversion From 30-Day to Calendar Month

Turbonomic calculates monthly conversion using a 30-day period, but I want to check the conversion using calendar months like January, February, March, instead of the past 30 days. It would be helpful if, for example, the CostBreakdown could allow...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted