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ad hoc report subscribtion

Ad hoc report subscriptions would allow users to automatically receive customized reports on-demand without the need to schedule them. Currently, sending on-demand reports requires subscribing end users to a report, which also generates confusing ...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Rightsizing ROI Widget totals based on 30/10 days, on-demand/effective

The current widget totals displaying the potential savings and realized savings show add up 10-days and 30-day timeline amounts. However the ticket is created this is how the potential and realized savings are displayed. Thus the total figures are...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Regarding the price display for "Aurora Standard" and "Aurora I/O-Optimized"

Aurora has multiple prices even for the same instance type. However, in the current Turbonomic UI, it's unclear which price is being displayed. Is it possible to make this clear? ------------------------------------------------------------ https:/...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Delivered

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Instana EKS Fargate support

Please support AWS EKS fargate. Instana is the best solution for cloud native environment monitoring. Considering it, EKS fargate need to be supported, because if user is focusing cloud native, then EKS fargate is in their target list. BP NSSOL th...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / Tracing 6 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Natvie Prometheus support

Instana supports Prometheus in a customised way to transfer and work with Prometheus metrics. Basically, Prometheus metrics can be collected and transferred to Instana. But core features like Metrics Labels do not work with the Instana backend in ...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 3 Not under consideration

Include Cost (Amortized) in Anomaly Detection

Currently, as Anomaly is based on Cost (Actual). This has limitations incase of a customer using reservations. In such cases Cost (Actual) is able to work only on "On-Demand Cost" which is only pricing model being captured by Cost (Actual) - and w...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

business benefit should appear in ServiceNow Change

The biggest challenge with VM Sizing is getting App Team buy-in. With ServiceNow Orchestration - the app team will receive an approval for a CR in ServiceNow. Right now there is NO BUSINESS BENEFIT listed in this change. Why would they approve? In...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Size work loads for performance test only

Provide recommendations on cpu request and memory request based on performance test schedule . Scenarios : 1. Spikey type of transactions like sending event notifications via email to other apps/customers. This demands for higher cpu/mem resources...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration