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Handle Zero or NA value in Calculated metric

We are using Insights to get notified if % change value is more than 10% over a period of time. To calculate % change over previous period, the logic used is: % change = (Current period cost - Previous period cost ) / Previous period cost The prob...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Additional data required while monitoring Oracle DB

Customer is interested to view more details while monitoring Oracle Databases using Instana. 1) SQL ID CPU Usage section shows all details except CPU Usage %. Also it would be useful to expand details about each Instana ID. 2) TOP CPU Consuming Se...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Planned for future release

Enhance Line Item Code function to replace all and retain Line Item Codes

We reload our Labor and Assets data monthly in ITP.  This ensures that resources that are gone are removed, resources that change depts are moved and new resources are added.   We began to use Line Item Codes as a way to maintain a ...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Display [Description] field's text on mouse rollover of Editable Table's fields

As a TBMA, I would like to inform end users interacting with Editable Tables directly or via a report component of a field's description and other advice via mouse rollover pop-up text boxes to show that field's [Description] value. Such advice co...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add Aruba Access Point Metadata upon Device Discover

Upon discovering Aruba Controller devices in NMS via the Wifi plugin, Aruba Access Point (AP) devices are also added to the cluster. However, some useful metadata is missing which does get included from other manufacturer APs. This is affecting th...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Multi-Entity Reporting and Filtering Capability

Currently, there is an inability to create in-platform reports within TargetProcess that have more than 1 entity in its source data, as entity specific filtering in the report data fields is not allowed. The ability to create reports that utilize ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Including Services Without Direct Costs IN cost sharing ruleS

Hi, Currently, it’s not possible to use cost statements for services that don’t have direct costs in the cost sharing feature. We have several services—such as those composed of Frontend, Backend, API Management, and SQL Database—that don’t genera...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Under review