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Support Cost Estimation for Scale Actions Without Billing Data Using AWS Public Pricing

In cases where cloud contracts are managed through vendors, it is sometimes not possible to reference the corresponding Billing targets. Under the current specification, this limitation prevents accurate cost calculations for scale actions due to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Allow execute actions on the disk attached to an instance that is in an unmanaged instance group

There are large potential savings to update the disk type per the Turbonomic suggestions. However, turbonomic UI states "the volume is attached to an instance in an instance group. Scale actions for this volume can only be executed in Google Cloud...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 5

Save our filters so you can apply them easily when we changed dashboard/report/widget

Not possible at the moment and this is not planned soon. It is possible to use the URL to hard record part of the filters... But this is not an interesting solution.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Subscribe to click-through report instead of base report

We have a base report that has two drill down (click-through) reports, so the structure goes: Cloud Spend Analysis Report (Base) Category report Subcategory Report A user can select a category from the base report to then navigate to the category ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 5 Future consideration

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration