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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Integrate GitHub Annotations into Anomaly reporting

Develop a GitHub integration for Cloudability that allows annotations from GitHub to be displayed directly in anomaly reports.This feature would link code changes, such as pull request merges or deployments, to potential shifts in cost profiles or...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Need a platform health status page so SaaS customers can check to see if there are known issues before logging support requests

Most of the SaaS based products we work with have a Health Status page that lists the product's main features and their current operational status. This helps in the troubleshooting steps to know if we are having an issue or if the platform is hav...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Create a Favorites area on the Main/Left menu (or Favourites for our funny talking friends)

With dozen of different IT teams supporting hundreds of cloud accounts, we are approaching multiple thousands of resource groups in Turbonomic. Most of the DevOps teams are only concerned about a few dozen of those groups that their team specifica...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
about 1 month ago in Instana 1 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Submitted

Cloudability- Enhance reporting filters to allow multi selection of values

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I often need to report on multiple values relating to services, accounts, account group tags, etc. It's a cumbersome user experience to have to add a filter for each case. By adding a multi-select ...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted