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I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Subscribe to get Rightsizing reports via email

Proactive alerts to highlight optimization opportunities are more effective in some customers than a self service model. Customers want to be able to subscribe to rightsizing opportunities within their area of responsibility. This functionality co...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

The visible columns in the Variance Analysis (Detailed Actuals section) need to be customizable.

My client (Flowers Foods US) has requested to see account number in the actuals section of the variance analysis. This section is not customizable. We need to have a "show hide columns" feature on this view to bring in the account number.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

A Turbo Feature that allows the export and import of the Turbo configuration, such as policies, groups, and targets.

The Turbonomic policies, groups, and target settings are assets of our customer, created based on their business requirements, use cases, and resource management experiences. There should be a way for them to export these settings as backups. Thes...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

extend Netcool OMNIbus message_bus jms transport layer to parse jms header meta data

actually the Netcool Message_Bus probe jms transport layer only parses the jms message payload data, but not the jms message header data. The jms header data contains important information like message-id, timestamps, object-uri, etc. which is imp...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to use custom LDAP libraries or modify LDAP search parameters

When it comes to security, a robust authentication setup is key. In this regard, the way is implemented in production environments may lead to use non-standard settings or mixing different approaches to suit operation's needs. The request is to ei...
2 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 4 Future consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration