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Unable to get the thread count from the nci secondary server(noi-nciserver-1 )

Verizon operates with two NCI server nodes: noi-nciserver-0 (primary) and noi-nciserver-1 (secondary). At times,the primary node’s thread count can reach up to 200, which is currently monitored through the eventprocessor.log. Since load balancing ...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Multiple scheduling options in a single day - instead of just once schedule per day

Like Datalink we should get an option to schedule multiple connectors in ADM to sync up Cloudy and Studio. Use-case :- A single connector is helpful if we have a fix time when Cloudy is getting updated and that too just once a day. However, in ord...
8 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Add "product_to_location" column from the CUR to CLDY

Add "product_to_location" column from the CUR to CLDY
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Audit Log Files JSON Format

After the IWA upgrade from 9.5.3 to 10.2.2, DB logs were showing the JSON format. We tried upgrading to 10.2.5 as well. We are doing audits on a weekly basis, and as part of this process, we retrieve the database logs from the path mentioned below...
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Excel Import and Export support

Currently it is not possible to directly upload Excel (xlsx) files into Apptio planning or for exporting from Apptio Planning. This creates a lot of issues with Admins and End Users leading to incorrect plans and/ or reference data. It is not poss...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...

Overcome limitation on monitoring Kafka endpoints

Due to the fact that JVM stack traces are increasing the size of the data sent to back end, and raising our budget, we are configuring some Kafka topics to not being monitored. The problem is that there is a limitation on the number of topics to b...
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration