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expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Not under consideration

Add more resources for Sustainability Reporting

Currently, Cloudability supports a limited set of resources in sustainability reporting, including only Azure Compute (non-GPU), Managed Disks, and Managed Databases. This restricts customers from gaining comprehensive insights into their sustaina...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Planned for future release

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.
9 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Automated Custom certificates with no down time

We have a huge environment and distributing the certificates or scripts to each agent is not feasible. Provide an automated certificate process where the new certs are provisioned on each agent in parallel with the existing ones to allow either of...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Schedule Plan Baseline Push to ITP

Clients need to update plan baseline data like labor regularly with no manual steps. Please add the ability to map an entity to ITP and select a plan to push into so ADM knows which plan to push the baseline data into. Then add the ability to sche...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

SevOne NPM should support netflow connection over TCP.

TCP is more secure and more reliable than UDP. As such, SevOne NPM should be able to support incoming netflow traffic over TCP in order to stay up to date with standards and customer expectations.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration