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Make it possible to report 30-day savings amounts for each ROI ticket.

Right now the savings amount that is reported per ticket is either 10-day or 30-day and there is no way to change this. As a result, I have a total savings number with a mix of both time periods, making it impossible to know how much is being save...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 3 Functionality already exists

Improve Api v3 Documentation for SDBConfigs endpoints

API v3 has a section for SDBConfigs - Many of the endpoints have very little or no description on what the intended functionality is. Improved documentation for the endpoints is requested
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Integration with Datadog for Metrics

Currently the platform has OOB integration with Datadog for alarms and events. However, Datadog also sends Metrics for example from Okta for denied logins, etc. which cannot be captured for correlation for generating an anomaly.
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Build Synthetic Images with arm compability

Have it possible to run backend on arm instances
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Display hot add memory and cpu information on Entity Information widget

Provide visibility on whether a VM has hot add enabled for CPU and MEM from the entity detail
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Limiting open plan access for users

Is there a way something can be built so that an open plan can only be visible to certain users. So if 10 users only need to complete updates in a particular plan, the open plan would only be available to those 10 users and not everyone. 
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration