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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Under review

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Filter out GP2 recommendations from Right Sizing

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base Right Sizing preferences to *ignore* all recommendations for AWS GP2 storage. There doesn't appear to be any capability to do that at this time. Aff...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Apply a filter to the entire dashboard

Like the new feature that allows us to select a date range for an entire dashboard, I would like to be able to select other dimensions as a filter, rather than having to create a view each time.For example : Filter a dashboard by AWS payer ID, or ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Monitoring/compatibility issue: jvm_attach_generic - part of magic xpi monitoring

As per the customer- The host agent cannot attach correctly to this Java Virtual Machine. Therefore, this process will not be traced. Refer to the host agent logs for more information as to why the attachment failed. The host agent will try to con...
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Request for Trace Log Functionality

With the current product capabilities, it is not possible to capture logs of user actions. Since operation logs for various configuration changes are not available, it is impossible to identify, for example, who created a business mapping or when ...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted