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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...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 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

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.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Cloudability integration with Gen AI agents

Gen AI agents, combined with a Multi-Cloud Platform (MCP) server, are incredibly useful for FinOps because they enable proactive, automated, and intelligent cost management across complex cloud environments. Multiple personas will benefit from it ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 2 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

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Planned for future release

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Alert and Incident query API to enable filtering in alignment with the User Interface

Enhance the existing Alert and Incident retrieval APIs to include additional filtering conditions Enable the API to query alerts and Incidents using the same set of filters as available in the UI. Get the count of alarms The current API has the fo...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release