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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...
2 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 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...
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 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...
6 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Add MQ object filtering support for MQ auto-discovery

Instana MQ auto-discovery currently discovers MQ managers without requiring explicit MQ configuration. However, MQ object filtering is only available for MQ managers configured manually under the MQ sensor. As a result, users cannot control which ...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Expose SKU from GCP as Part Number dimension in Cloudability

For customers who need to see a GCP SKU for detailed analysis, as it exists in the BQ data please expose this to the Part Number dimension in Cloudability
1 day ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Have GPU rightsizing for Azure

Missing the data for GPU rightsizing that would help give better recommendations
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Preview of Telemetry Data Instead of Needing to Download It

It would be great if I could preview what my telemetry data looks like to see which days I have telemetry data for or not instead of needing to download the csv file. 
2 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Add Usage Quantity Unit, Resource ID, and Usage Hours to Commitment Portfolio

The customer would like additional consumption-level visibility directly within the Commitment Portfolio/page. The requested fields are: Usage Quantity Unit Resource ID Usage Hours IBM's Commitment Table Basics documentation lists the fiel...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Cleanup leftover files from previous version during future upgrades.

When upgrading IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS), vulnerability remediation updates often install newer component versions while leaving older versions on the system. For example, when a newer OpenSSL version is deployed, a new directory (such as OpenS...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

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.
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted