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Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Clarified verbiage for unsubmitted changes

Currently, when we indicate that there are unsubmitted changes for a Cost Object, we are essentially showing all CO's that are in "In Progress" status, whether or not there have actually been any changes in the CO. The verbiage of "unsubmitted cha...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to get the volume of purchased licences through Instana API

Hello, Currently, I' m able to get the number of active apmhost and infrahost per day with the api endpoint : /api/instana/usage/hosts/{day}/{month}/{year} ############# Usage : https://xxxxxxxxxxx.instana.io ############# [{'time': 1724544000000,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Automation 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI Enhancements - Realized Savings, user experience, & reporting impacts

As a FinOps practitioner responsible for driving FinOps best practice adoption across our organization, and responsible to deliver potential & realized savings metrics to the executives, I require the ability to report on the savings offered &...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Provide container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter nodepools similar to what is provided for ASG nodes

Karpenter is becoming an industry standards, my customers want container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter node pools.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Allow customization to the container cost allocation algorithm

Currently the cost allocation is based on the instances used in the cluster. Customers would also like to be able to tailor the cost allocation for specific clusters or be able to assign their own weight for some workload types. Possible configura...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Create an "Undo" button to allow users to revert a change

Create an "Undo" button to allow users to revert a change that was made in error
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add option to Import/Export in .xlsx format

It would be nice to import/export to .xlsx in ITP because right now everything is .csv which drops leading zeros and causes issues with formatting and integrity of the data
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Give clients the ability to remove the Hours option on the Labor Activity screen

We view everything in FTE terms and have had issues where the toggle was changed to hours and our data was inaccurate requiring re-work and re-sending of data to our reporting suite
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration