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Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

Current State: Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend. Problem: Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Simultaneous Execution Limits per Policy - Allow setting of number of parallel executions at a policy level

This is very useful in limiting the number of actions kicked off under the same schedule at the same time. Right now all actions which the policy applies to will kick off at the same time. This means that multiple members of the same service clust...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

New Dimensions for Resource Type on reports

to have a new dimension for reports that shows resource type. Currently having to use Item Description and Resource ID as a deminsion and then filter with one of those by using the (contains) operator to get to the resource type is a messy way of ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Request to Enable Filter Options on Apptio Admin Console Users Report

Hi Support Team, Could you please enable filter options on the Apptio Admin Console Users report? This will help improve usability and streamline data analysis. Let me know if any additional details are needed. Regards Swarna
about 2 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Expand shared views to include all hierarchy levels

When currently sharing a view with an external user, that user will only be able to see the 1st level hierarchy of the report and are not able to drill down to see lower level items. This defeats the purpose of having a shared view if the external...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Not under consideration

enable future date selection in the time range filter

One of my clients is using the Cloudability dashboard and would like to select a custom time range that aligns with their fiscal year — specifically from February 2025 to February 2026. However, when attempting to select this range, the calendar d...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

filter Dependencies

On a "Capability Kanban" view we have several quick filters. the ones in question are: Portfolio, ART, PI. If a user selects a portfolio we want it to narrow down selection of ARTS to only ART in that portfolio. Then once an ART is selected we onl...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration