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If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
11 months ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Visibility Cloudability issues

We use business mappings to control the views. However if the business mappings are updated the effect is that users can no longer view the ticket/cloudability issue they have raised and hence tickets/cloudability issues can no longer be updated b...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Needs more information

URGENT - Add "NESTING DETAIL" and "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" parameters to RestAPI used by WAPL jobs in order to mitigate slow response times related to networking. this IDEA has been suggested by IBM support

UNIPOL needs to use DWC REST API queries in order to monitor his TWS scheduling infrastructure. Specifically, he wants to check the status of a jobstream in the current plan, and all the jobs it contains. In case a job is not COMPLETED, we launch ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Official Terraform Provider / IaC

Need to have an official Terraform provider that is managed by Cloudability and takes into account all the latest features.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 2 Future consideration

Adjust Self-Managed Turbonomic License to Match Contract Terms

As for self-managed Turbonomic license, currently, even for officially ordered licenses, the license file that customers register contains the following details: Expiration Date: 2122-12-31 Quantity: 999,999,999 This is essentially unlimited and s...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0