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Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Future consideration

Number of months until x date

The idea would be to have a dynamic counter, to make some advanced calculated metrics. The example is the running rate that needs to be achieved until the end of the contract.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
24 days ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 2 Needs more information

Verizon Wireless needs an API to create and maintain maps in DI

Verizon Wireless has hundreds of status maps managed by scripts currently, it would be unthinkable to have them manually create and maintain those maps in DI maps
19 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Ability to restrict the Rest API to specific user groups and rate-limiting

Currently, the Rest API can be used by anyone with access to the engine. We would like the ability to restrict that access to a specific user group or even source IP address or subnet. In addition, being able to rate limit Rest API calls would als...
17 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Include Unusual Spend chart in the anomaly email notification

Currently, unusual spend is reported via email alert - but there is no daily spend and a visual of a cost spike available, unless one goes to Cloudability anomalies and clicks on alert detail. It will be very useful to have that anomaly chart incl...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add Folders or Descriptions for User Objects

In our environment, we have almost 200 User objects. It would be very helpful for us if we could organize them into folders or add descriptions to them.
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Structured instructions and tools to migrate from On-Premises Turbonomic to SaaS Turbonomic

Customer are consistently moving from On-Prem to Cloud as well as SaaS where it is available. Transition for Turbonomic is very manual and for SaaS, there is lot of dependency to migrate.
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted