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ITP – Department Drop-Down

Expand the Department drop-down box to allow for more characters, improving visibility for all users.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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 collection operators to filter expressions

Existing collection operators are ".Where", ".Count", and ".Contains". It would be useful to have other operators like ".sum", ".max", ".min", etc. The Metrics and Validation rules DSL support these operators; it would make sense for the filter ex...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Future consideration

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

The description tab should be available for Target

The Description field should be available for Targets. Currently, when adding a VMC vCenter as a target, we often have to use its IP address. However, since VMC environments are primarily identified by IP, only individuals familiar with those IPs ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

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

Ability to Nest Contracts through Parent Child Contract Relationship

Business Need: We need the ability to nest contracts within Apptio Planning Contracts. We are looking for the ability to have a parent contract line showing the contract date for the enterprise and then the child entries split out by our divisions...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Restricting access to Turbo platform

Due to security requirements, the customer has requested to block any user from accessing the Turbo SaaS platform from IP addresses other than those they specify. In customer's other systems, IP whitelisting is implemented through the instance’s f...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release