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Incorporate metadata into alerting

Operationally and for Management reports. Standardizing metadata fields across the diverse number of environments. Real-time synchronization of metadata. Alert policies that dynamically adapt to metadata changes.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...

Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners. Question by IBM team.------------------------- Valid RBAC request. Have you seen our new SaaS reporting option? This is...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

AIOPS RB Export Import creates duplicate actions when Runbooks are imported sequentially one after the other and if the same actions are part of both RB's.

Currently AIOPS has a limitation of not checking for duplicates if import of Runbooks is done one after the other containing the same actions. Assume there are five actions in RB1 and it's already exported from Preprod to Prod and then if we attem...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review