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Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Normalize region naming conventions between datasets for Cloud Service Providers and SaaS Services, E.g. AWS & Databricks on AWS.

Problem:Right now we have Cloudability vendor credentialling set up for our AWS organizations and our AWS-hosted Databricks account. The vendor regions in the data sets has different naming conventions even though in reality they represent the sam...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Add Purchasing Account Name in Tables on Commitment Portfolio for RIs

It would be helpful to on the Commitment Portfolio page, when selecting AWS RIs, to show the purchasing account. When selecting Savings Plans, you do get the account name included. This would help the central FinOps team be able to quickly analyze...

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...

Amount of decimals in the system

Customers coming from different systems are user to different amount of decimal numbers. also in between calculations are causing rounding errors in the total amounts of budgets, forecasted costs,... the request is to set a default amount of decim...
24 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0

Support Action Generation for GCP Managed Instance Groups (MIGs) in Turbonomic

Currently, Turbonomic does not generate actions for virtual machines (VMs) that are part of a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Managed Instance Group (MIG), unless a specific probe property is manually enabled (gcp.mig.vm.action.enabled). Even when ena...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 9

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Kanban View States: ability to customize grouping of states

It would be helpful to have the ability to customize how states are displayed as columns in the Kanban view. Right now, the system automatically groups them based on process workflows. We would like the flexibility to categorize states or map them...

Add Entity and Action UUIDs as an available column in the Search and Actions tables

The process for getting to this information easily for 50+ or even 1000+ items when utilizing the APIs to do metadata tagging is very cumbersome and requires multiple navigation clicks to move from one item to another. Making this an available cus...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted