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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements needed to ServiceNow ticketing integration

The servicenow integration for ticketing needs to be able to populate Confiugration Item (CI). This is a required field in our environment and is used to define incident queue routing. Additionally, we should write to the staging table rather than...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 1 Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Files Reserved Capacity

A reservation covers storage capacity for Azure Files. Reservations for hot and cool tiers don't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the a...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

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5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Not under consideration

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Planned for future release

IT Planning Event Log : open function for Cost Center Owners

Currently Event Log is useful, but it is only visible for Admins. Especially for cost centers managed by multiple users, these cost center owners want to see who eventually has done a change.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Create parser for IBM Turbonomic logs when redirected to Google SecOps (Chronicles)

The syslog or audit log from IBM Turbonomic can be further analyzed to ensure proper security measures are in place when the logs are redirected to external SecOps systems such as Google SecOps (Chronicles). However, a parser is required on Google...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Usage by Hour Ability with GCP Data and Off Hours Savings Tracker

Our company is wanting to see potential savings by spinning down resources during off hours but are currently restricted as Cloudability only supports the day of week for time period and not hours for GCP data (GCP billing data has usage_start and...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Can Cloudability fetch data only for specific business units within a shared tenant environment, where cloud subscriptions are used by thousands of business units worldwide?

We are in discussion with a large international company in Norway that has a great emphasis on professionalizing the way they work with FinOps. Our business partner Valoro have a dialogue with them and learned that currently they do not have a pro...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Under review

Integration with Greenpixie for sustainability data

Greenpixie is a leader in enriching AWS cost data with detailed sustainability metrics. Having sustainability information in Cloudability along other cost and utilisation information would bring GreenOps and FinOps together based on trusted and ac...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review