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Cloudability Dynamic Currency Service

Rather than use a manual upload of currencies for managing cldy cross platform currencies, it would make sense to use a dynamic service to make an API call and set this in the platform as opposed to a manual upload. API is also a must
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

List of all ApptioBI Reports to which logged in User is subscribed

This would either be a new menu item that provides a list of the reports that the user is subscribed to, or a new filter on the reports page that enables you to select those reports that you are subscribed to (ideally in conjunction with other fil...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Instana ACE Tracing Should Not Modify MQ RFH2 Header or Message ID

Problem statement: Enabling ACE tracing for Instana introduces changes to MQ message structure (e.g., RFH2 header, CCSID, and traceparent field). This behavior breaks message compatibility with existing systems expecting unmodified MQ headers. Enh...
7 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enable real time monitoring (and alerting) of user activity to capture IBM Consulting Advantage (ICA) user's prompt to the LLM and response back.

This will enable real time monitoring of user prompts and responses to check for in appropriate language, PII data used and other related use cases. Automated monitoring and alerting (for ex triggering email to support Distribution Lists and invol...
7 days ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Under review

Include more Cloud Services for Sustainability Reporting

Hi, currently, IBM Turbonomic provides sustainability reporting based on virtual machines (VMs). However, since the customer utilizes a wide range of cloud services across different cloud platform, it would be beneficial to extend the Sustainabili...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Under review

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
13 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

Display Account ID and Region Columns in Anomaly Detection List

Customer Feedback: Currently, the Anomaly Detection list only includes the account name. The customer requests that the Account ID be displayed in the list to make it easier to identify accounts when multiple payer accounts are registered. They fo...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Ability to get status of Azure vendor credentials via the API

Currently there is no way for us to be alerted if a specific set of the vendor credentials stops working. We can only get alerted by email if the verification fails. We have had scenarios where the verification status will show verified but the Az...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration