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Adding a freeform description field for connectors

This will help admin quickly identify what the connector is being used for in a language they can understand.
about 8 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

add webhook log

Currently, when webhook alert notifications are sent, there is no way to confirm if the delivery was successful. There is a need to add a status query API for alert retransmission. 1. Add an API to query the results of webhook alert notifications....
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Additional details on DL main page

Would like to be able to see more details on the main page without having to click into each connector and click through the pages to find the details needed. This becomes quite cumbersome with the many connectors most have. Also, the ability to p...
4 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Grouping Zabbix Events with Instana

Currently, Instana only displays events integrated from Zabbix. We hope to be able to analyze and group Zabbix events integrated into Instana together with alerts detected by Instana.It would be best if Zabbix events were also grouped in the “Rela...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add Forecast Details Tab next to Summary and Actuals tabs in the Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen

The Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen currently includes a Summary tab and Actuals tab. The Summary tab is a waterfall of Budget to Forecast by the selected dimension, but users would like to easily view relevant budget detail ...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow hierarchical slicer in TBM Studio report subscription

Currently if a report uses hierarchical slicers, those slicers are not available to be selected in the report subscription dialogue. This forces configuration changes on the report (removing hierarchical slicers and replacing with normal slicers) ...
27 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Outlier detection for infrastructure smart alerts

Many competitors implement outlier detection (example from Splunk: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-observability-cloud/create-alerts-detectors-and-service-level-objectives/create-alerts-and-detectors/built-in-alert-conditions/outlier-detection)....
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 1

Datalink Execution Prompt

While executing datalinks, it would be beneficial to include a confirmation prompt before executing datalinks to prevent accidental triggers that could compromise destination data.
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Apptio Costing:::Expand the ability to use Map Columns

The Map Columns transform step can only be used with what are called Master Datasets which only exist in components. This should be changed so that the Map Columns step can be used with any data transform. One of the main reasons for this is that ...
27 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted