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Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
7 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Enable Cloudability to Ingest Azure Data via Private Endpoint

Description: We have a security policy that would need an exceptions process to be able to adopt Cloudability for Azure. We request an enhancement to allow Cloudability to ingest Azure cost and usage data through Azure Private Link or similar priv...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Expand the Cloudability Scorecard Capabilities Across AWS Services and extend the Historical View

Currently Scorecard component in Cloudability provides valuable insights , but its scope is limited primarily to AWS Compute Services and a 30-day view. This restricts our ability to measure optimization maturity and track long term improvements a...
2 months ago in Cloudability 0 Under review

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

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

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

Add filtering capabilities to entities history

Current Limitation: The history tab on TargetProcess entities can become quite extensive, especially for items with frequent updates. Currently, users must manually expand each individual update to determine which fields were changed. There is no ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review