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Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Show the model object identifier in a pop up window when hovering mouse cursor over the object

It would enable an easy review of the OID, preventing the need to click into and open the object itself, which often takes a long time depending on the size of the backing table. When reviewing model performance this has been an important activity...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Custom dashboard with more customization abilities

A customer is Hong Kong built their own custom dashboard on Instana. They request for the ability to edit the custom Dashboard's font size, bold, underline, color etc to facilitate their needs.
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

incident page does show assigned runbooks but it is not easy to access the runbook execution results

The incident page does show assigned runbooks and you can easily start such a runbook by clicking the offered "Run" button. But if the runbook has already been executed (especially when triggered automatically) there is not easy to access to the r...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metric display

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metrics such as Dropwizard metrics
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Start Date Time and End Date Time should be captured in Instana Alerts via Mail/MSTeams

We have configured alerting for our services in Instana, but we have noticed that the email notifications for triggered alerts do not display the start and end times of the alert. The alert email only shows severity, entity, and message. Start tim...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Please change numerical fields in data downloads to be formatted as number on downloads

Hi IBM, I've noticed that when downloading any data from Turbonomic the csv or excel that is extracted does not format numerical data in a number format within csv/excel. Please can the scripting be changed on the download/extract function to form...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Request to create HMC Observer

We have been advised by IBM to create this request for requesting HMC observer, seems there is already out-of-the-box developed observer which can be bundled to suffice.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration