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Assigning user with multiple roles or multiple external user groups

Enterprises are getting complex and role of a FinOps, DevOps or SRE is getting more fragmented. With this direction in the organization, a FinOps team member may want to have a readonly/observer privilege on all the resources, but more actionable ...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review
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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.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
8 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

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 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

OpenShift (OVE or OCP) documentation and images to deploy appliance

Customers migrating from platforms such as VMWare to Red Hat OpenShift would like availability of documentation and images necessary for deployment similar to OVAs into VMWare.
27 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0

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.
25 days ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 2 Needs more information

Amount of decimals in the system

Customers coming from different systems are user to different amount of decimal numbers. also in between calculations are causing rounding errors in the total amounts of budgets, forecasted costs,... the request is to set a default amount of decim...
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted