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Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add Folders or Descriptions for User Objects

In our environment, we have almost 200 User objects. It would be very helpful for us if we could organize them into folders or add descriptions to them.
7 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Structured instructions and tools to migrate from On-Premises Turbonomic to SaaS Turbonomic

Customer are consistently moving from On-Prem to Cloud as well as SaaS where it is available. Transition for Turbonomic is very manual and for SaaS, there is lot of dependency to migrate.
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Campanion operator support at pod level

Custoemer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
8 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

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.
8 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
8 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Create Jira ticket from Commitment Recommendations

Please allow from Commitment Recommendations to create jira tickets to be assigned to product teams for evaluation.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 3

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release