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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Future consideration

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Planned for future release

Consider maximum utilization during POD startup in addition percentile value for the given observation period for memory limit scaling to prevent out-of-memory kills during POD startup

Some POD have a utilization peak during startup. The percentile-based approach may lead to not considering this peak or if the POD isn't restarted during the observation period this peak is not considered. Turbonomic may recommend to scale down th...

Last Modified Date and Sorting

When you sort by name in Policies page, the sorting goes kaput when you go to the next page. Would be nice to have more than 75 as the number of items per page. I would like to get the Last Modified Date as one of the columns for sorting. Again, t...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Functionality already exists

Add Turbo support to the IBM FinOps agent used for Cloudability and Kubecost

Currently customers have to install 2 agents from IBM to use all of the available FinOps tools. Kubecost and Cloudability have already combined their agents into the IBM FinOps agent. Customers would like to include the Turbonomic needs into the s...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

Predictive analysis for migration window when converting back from ST1 to GP volumes in AWS.

When executing Turbo scaling actions to move volumes for savings after peak production hours (ex, after 5pm), the time it takes AWS to complete the migration has little impact. However, when the reverse is true for move actions of volumes for perf...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Onboard ThoughtSpot Users via Distribution List in Okta IdP

Integrate Okta IdP with ThoughtSpot via SAML and utilize a pre-existing group within the IdP to streamline the onboarding process for new users. This would simplify user management and allow an admin to add all members of an email distribution lis...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration