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Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Disable/Delete Flow Interface not seen for X Months

Flow interfaces never get disabled or deleted once they are allowed for collection. Over time, interfaces move or are disabled thereby leaving these flow interfaces to consume licenses when nothing is being collected. There's no way to tell if a f...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 5 Future consideration

"discover-netflow" should display the current source of flow in mapped instead of the last link

Given the way Netflow is design, its possible to fail over from a lab environment was able to continue collecting netflow. However, there is a little caveat when it comes to the display name and management: Currently the NMS does not actively trac...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Workload Automation - Databricks Plugin Improvements

IWA Databricks plugin should be improved in the visualization and interaction capabilities with the Databricks workflow: - Plugin should have the ability to view tasks (which are part of Databrick jobs) - Plugin should have the ability to rerun/co...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Alert clearing condition based on no change to indicator value

For generating an alert, there are trigger/clear conditions based on "Changed", "Changed To" and "Changed From" But there is no way to clear an alerts if it does not change for X amount of time. It would be helpful if there is an option to impleme...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration