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Target file import possibility

Please add functionality that allows the import of the Targets file. In other parts of Apptio planning, such as 'Reference Data', we have similar functionality; for example, we can import 'Labor Rates' (screenshot attached).”
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

CostAllocationRuleName to be added in Cloudabilty mapping for Datalink

CostAllocationRuleName field should be added to the Cloudability mapping for the cldy_monthly_azure Datalink connector. This field is included in the Usage Details Amortized and Actual Exports which is scheduled daily.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Remove 'Utilisation Data' radio button for non-AWS customers

A number of our consumers use Cloudability as a central source of data but are left dispondant becuase they try to use the 'Utilisation Data' radio button under metrics and dimensions. As we are an Azure consumer and the Utilisation Data is only a...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Include / Exclude option for Cloud Service Provider(s)

Whilst I appreciate that Cloudability is a Multi-cloud SaaS service, it would be really nice if the customer could toggle the various CSP's off or on as a configuration setting. If a customer is only using a single CSP, it would be beneficial to t...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to create stacked graphs in CLDY.

Example to limit results to x number and dynamically group the remaining spend into an "Other" dimension. Functionality was previous released for Apptio BI but we do not intend to adopt Apptio BI so would like this functionality in Cloudability re...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Support in-place resource resize without restart

Kubernetes at version 1.27 released a feature to change cpu and memory from containers without trigger a restart. Use this mechanism will boost Turbonomic usage on cloud native targets and minimize the requests for GitOps integrations.Source: http...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Enabling Traceability on Azure Key Vault

The information provided today by Instana is not enough to determine when a problem occurs at the transaction level in Azure Key Vault, the information regarding performance and configuration metrics could be complemented by reviewing in depth the...
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Future consideration

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