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Assigning user with multiple roles or multiple external user groups

Enterprises are getting complex and role of a FinOps, DevOps or SRE is getting more fragmented. With this direction in the organization, a FinOps team member may want to have a readonly/observer privilege on all the resources, but more actionable ...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
20 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Request for additional features that can be provided via the Turbonomic API.

My customer has been using Cloudability Premium as basis of cloud resource and cost optimization managed service for their customers. Which contains Cloudability-SaaS and Turbonomic-SaaS function limited. Regarding on Turbonomic SaaS reporting fun...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide capability for Managing Server Trap to monitor specific Thread pools.

Currently the Managing Server (prod: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Diagnostics) has a capability to define an Alert to monitor Thread pools in a Trap definition. Current design is that it will monitor all thread pools, and there's no function t...
12 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

provide the `ps -auxww` information for each node

Now Instana lists up the top process for each Linux nodes. But sometimes we need the output of `ps auxww` information of the node. If collecting and recording the historical output of `ps auxww` in the backend is too much data volume, provide the ...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

List up the belonging teams for each person in the User page

As an administrator, it's tedious work to open each user and check the role or team that person belongs. please list up the team and roles in the User page of the access control, instead of the only number of role which is displayed now.
12 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
23 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Ability to filter container labels with not equals, contains, does not contain

Since containers are not available in reports, customers want to be able filter their container data based on mulitple criteria similar to what they could do in reporting (contains, does not equal, does not contain).
23 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted

Clear All

When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted