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Event closing action in automation

Hi, Currently there is no closing action which fires when an event is closed. We need this to tell the central event management console that an issue is resolved. It will nag the resonsible team until a closing event is received.
11 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

Use fuzzy match on tags and label names for assigning to dimensions

Sometimes similar tags or labels are created that follow a pattern, it would be useful to be able to use fuzzy logic in finding matching tags and labels. For instance "clustername" it could be within "karpenter.sh/discovery/ClusterName" or aws:Clu...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Admin ability to maintain discount rates when CSP does not provide them directly.

Currently when new contracts are signed, rates need to be updated by Apptio team. Customers would like to be able to maintain this information directly without needing to involve support teams. Customers both an UI and API update / maintenance fun...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Support Parquet format AWS CUR 2.0

Parquet allows for better compression and thus smaller file sizes. Adding to support for CUR 2.0 in parquet format lowers the amount of data needing to be stored.

Add "shared with" column to the Apptio BI report list

Like the Native Cloudability Dashboard list, can we see the "shared with" information into the Apptio BI report list? It will helps to quickly identify which dashboard is shared to the Entire Organization
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Report memory used in AWS RDS to reports and dashboards

Seeing the amount of used memory alongside CPU would help customers make an informed decision around rightsizing and other utilization / consumption metrics as to how best optimize their workloads.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration