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Create multiple tickets

Would be great if we could create multiple Cloudability Issues as part of rightsizing recommendations at once. Now you have to create these one by one.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 3 Functionality already exists

If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Planned for future release

Allow group filtering against another group

There is currently no good way (outside of tag modification) to quickly exclude an entity from Group A when including it into Group B. This results in a cumbersome process to exclude an entity from one group while including it in another group. Ad...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Ability to Restrict Edit Permissions for Budgets in Cldy

Currently you cannot restrict who can edit a Budget in Cldy. It would be helpful if we could restrict users so that only the creator of the Budget (or assigned people) could edit the Budget, while other users could just utilize the Budget. This wi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration

Disable/Delete Flow Interface not seen for X Months

Flow interfaces never get disabled or deleted once they are allowed for collection. Over time, interfaces move or are disabled thereby leaving these flow interfaces to consume licenses when nothing is being collected. There's no way to tell if a f...
3 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 5 Future consideration

Add Views for Business Mapping

Southwest Airlines FinOps team utilizes Business Mappings and is aware that some tooling doesn't support the View setup with a Business Mapping.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Services and applications should support opentelemetry logs

Application Perspectives (and Services) cannot currently display logs ingested from OTEL, even though the logs are mapped to a service. We raised support case TS020036806 which was closed with the advice to submit an Aha idea for this to go to our...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 0

v3 API /api/v3/data/topn endpoint should allow for aggregationUnits to round to specific timestamps

Currently, V3 /api/v3/data/topn API allows for: AGGREGATION_AUTO (default value of v3 endpoint) AGGREGATION_DAILY AGGREGATION_HOURLY AGGREGATION_MONTHLY AGGREGATION_WEEKLY timespans in its API endpoint. This corresponds to shortterm data buckets o...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

"discover-netflow" should display the current source of flow in mapped instead of the last link

Given the way Netflow is design, its possible to fail over from a lab environment was able to continue collecting netflow. However, there is a little caveat when it comes to the display name and management: Currently the NMS does not actively trac...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need to trace core banking application based on Temenos

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Temenos software as a core banking application and they miss tracing of the application. There are few traces: - com.temenos.t24 - com.temenos.tafj (com.temenos.tafj.runtime.statements.jStatements:READ) pleas...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration