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Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
21 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add support of markdown or HTLM syntax in the Apptio BI text box widget

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add hyperlinks, color by creating the message in other tool then past in the text box an...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Can we get pod level (or) workload level cost details in reports just like we get these details from the container insights section ?

Hi Team, In container Insights section, we get data as per cluster, namespace, workload, and pod level if we drill down. But in CLDY reports section, we can only use namespace to filter, do we have functionality where we can get workload or pod le...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Container Platform Resize vCPU & vMem Reclaim Amounts

Similar to VMs in VMWare systems pending actions view show the Resize vCPU & cMEM Reclaim amounts, it would be useful to show similarly for Container Platforms same total Reclaim amounts when demonstrating the potential goodness of doing Conta...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Unused Business Mapping, Account Groups, and Tags – Identification & Housekeeping

Currently, customers create tags, account groups, and business mappings that are applied across reports and dashboards. However, over time, some of these objects may no longer be in use—either because the business context has changed, projects hav...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review