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Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
6 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Add SharePoint Connector to Datalink

Background and Reason for Request: Currently, it is possible to integrate data from SharePoint folders using the existing "REST Service" connector. However, this method only supports Client Secret authentication and does not support Certificate-ba...
10 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Reporting on Many:Many Entities

We run across this issue frequently where when entities have a many:many relationship it makes reporting difficult. We need the ability to choose the hidden "link" entities as the basis of the report (this is already possible with Team Members and...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

The DNS Plugin needs to monitor DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS

The DNS plugin needs to monitor the following DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS: Delegation SOA synchronization DNSSEC validity RRSIG expiry
14 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add word wrap or hover over capability to new view

There are many columns that can have a lot of text and adding word wrap would help so that you dont have to expand the column which then makes it farther to scroll.
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Integration Enhancement - Group By recommendation vs Individual rightsizing recommendations

Today the customer is not able to use the rightsizing integration with JIRA because it creates individual tickets in JIRA leading to too many tickets that go to the same person or team.  For example, 50 recommendations go to the same team. &n...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

We have option to integrate IWA to Cyberark vault for password retrival, we need similar for AKV (Azure Key vault)

We have option to integrate IWA to Cyberark vault for password retrival, we need similar for AKV (Azure Key vault)We run lots of Azure jobs using various plugins and it is important to have Azure key vault (AKV) to maintain password & seamless...
2 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Enable the independent definition of all Database Action types

As a Turbo administrator, I need to be able to define Policy for Database suspend, Database reconfigure, and Database delete actions without also configuring Cloud DB scale settings on the same Policy. Currently, Cloud DB scale MUST be configured ...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

The current databricks plugin allows only basic/static Oauth2.0 authentication

The current databricks plugin allows only basic/static Oauth2.0 authentication.Its is considered a security risk, Like RESTful plugin it need Oauth.20 with refresh token & other authentication options for easy integeration with added security
2 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted