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Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
24 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Terraform Support for Turbonomic

Why is it useful? Enables customers to manage Turbonomic with policy-as-code capabilities Enables customers recreate policies in the event of a disaster within Turbonomic (redeploy capabilities) Enables customer to reduce risk following software d...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 3 Planned for future release

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Recommendations list should include account names

When I look at reservation recommendation list, I see only instance types. I dont know on which accounts these instances work and whom I should follow up in regards to reservations. Please add Account ID or Account names in the recommendation list.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to disable/enable default Cloudability dimensions

Post introduction of the ATUM* dimensions, we realized that our users see too many options in the dimensions dropdown while creating reports and widgets. Not every Cloudability customer needs all the default dimensions as we also introduce dimensi...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Databricks support for Turbonomic

One of my clients requested to know references for resource optimization gains in Databricks solutions using Turbonomic.When researching, I found that at least two other large clients in Brazil made the same request. Is it possible to include Data...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 5 Planned for future release