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Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Promotion to Incident only group of alerts

Incidents are created to categorize the alert and allow notification to the associated ITSM to open a trouble ticket. The Alert Group correlates a series of alerts based on correlation policies. In my view, only alert groups should be promoted to ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow customers to reprocess business dimensions

Currently, if you make any changes to a business dimension and you want those changes reflected prior to the current month, you have to submit a support ticket. I regularly submit 1-3 tickets every month to reprocess our business dimensions. Pleas...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enhancements in OpenAPI Documentation

Hi Team, Could we enhance the documentation under infrastructure-monitoring/snapshots/ by listing all the available metrics that can be fetched through the API? Currently, the table does not detail the possible metrics users can query, which makes...
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Future consideration

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

Organization is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to update the W...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

In Rightsizing ROI, add capability to add business dimensions to rightsizing filters.

Currently in Optimization > Rightsizing ROI, the existing [+ Add Filter] menu lists a very limited set of dimensions for use.Filters do not match those available in Optimization > Rightsizing
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration