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Improve Cloudability Error Message Management and Readability

Transform Cloudability's error handling from transient pop-ups to a persistent, accessible error log with improved formatting.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Enable Default View Assignment by User Group

Allow administrators to configure and assign default views based on user group membership. When users log in.
13 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Compare an application with different zone / csp in WLP

The idea would be to take a tag / business mapping and all the resources linked to that application, push them into WLP and be able to compare the actual costs with the cost from different regions / CSP to evaluate where it would be the cheapest t...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
13 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
14 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
26 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Making "Your Month so Far" report more realistic in Current Month tab (Budget & Forecasting)

At the beginning of each month, the Estimated Monthly Cost and the % difference compared to last month often show unrealistically positive downward trend. However, as the days progress, the trend usually shifts and the numbers get worse. This earl...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Use data from AWS CUR normalized_usage_amount available as Normalized Usage Hours

Using the same normalized usage amount as the CUR provides will allow customers to understand how the flexible RIs are allocated. These kinds of RIs can fluctuate between instances and information on usage amounts will help in understanding why th...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted