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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
5 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

include support for the Kerberos/SAML authentication method

NTLM (Incl LANMAN, NTLMv1 and NTLMv2) was depreciated in Jun 2024 from Microsoft’s official announcement. Microsoft had released a MS Jan patch 2025 that enforce to remove the use of NTLMv1 in Win2025 servers. Microsoft may provide a MS patch to r...

'Turbonomic Parker' role not available in Cloudability Premium

Turbonomic standard software has a user named 'Parker' allowing users to manage start/stop and schedule of their VMs in the parking feature. Parker role only gives them access to this. This 'Parker' role doesn't exist in Cloudability Premium which...

Add more resources for Sustainability Reporting

Currently, Cloudability supports a limited set of resources in sustainability reporting, including only Azure Compute (non-GPU), Managed Disks, and Managed Databases. This restricts customers from gaining comprehensive insights into their sustaina...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Planned for future release

Multiple sorts in Apptio BI tables

In Apptio BI, the current table visualization allows sorting by only one column at a time. The requested enhancement is to enable multi-column sorting. For example, in a table with three columns—Account Name, Service Name, and Cost Total—users sho...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
20 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Under review

Stop calculating previous years in development

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. We've noticed data from 4 years ago calculating in "Development" that we don't need to calculate, which are extending calculation times. We only publish ...
26 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted