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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

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Is a defect

Ability to delete files from Datadrop directly

At the moment we are unable to directly delete files from our DataDrop viewer and need to raise a support ticket. It would be great if this was an option for us to self-serve. Background of our issue: many files get copied into DataDrop each day...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

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

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

Ability to remove final plans from the plan drop down and only have these available in the compare and summary compare area

Currently all the plans are available in the drop down but you can only edit new and open plans. it would be good if you could hide the final plans but have them available in the expense tab as a drop down and the summary/dashboard report as a com...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration