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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...
7 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) Submitted

Remove Send Email functionality from Apptio Admin and Apptio Partner roles

Our IT team has identified the email functionality in Apptio as being a risk for users outside our organisation e.g. Support using Apptio Admin role or Apptio Partner role. We have spoken to the engineering team about this and they confirmed that ...
about 22 hours ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Submitted

GitHub & Harness CI/CD Integration for IBM Workload Scheduler (Schedule-as-Code)

Enterprise customers are increasingly adopting GitHub and Harness as their strategic DevSecOps toolchain. Whilst IBM Workload Scheduler provides APIs, Composer and Automation Hub integrations, there is currently no IBM-supported integration that e...
about 9 hours ago in Workload Automation 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...
11 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 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 ...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Full Feature parity b/w GCP & other supported CSPs - Reporting, Rate Optimization, CSA, Data Mapping & Organization, Documentation, Support, Training

Requesting full parity b/w GCP & other supported CSPs across All Cloudability modules .  This would enable GCP Customers to align & scale their mature FinOps operations effectively.  We need GCP capabilities brought to equal stan...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

CSA for GCP Commitments - Extend automated commitment management to GCP Services eligible for Commitments

CSA Enhancement for GCP Commitments, extend automated commitment management to GCP Services eligible for Commitments All GCP Customers would benefit from it
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Submitted

GCP Cost Data Reporting - Need a Business Dimension that holds GCP Credit data from detailed billing

In Cloudability for GCP, need to create business dimension or tag that holds GCP Credit data.  So that GCP Customers for their FinOps Consumption reporting needs, can drill down to exclude specific GCP Credit IDs to view true consumption.
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

GCP Cost Data Reporting - Ability to report on TRUE GCP Consumption v/s Google invoiced net costs

In Cloudability, currently there's no way to report on True GCP consumption versus Google invoiced net cost. Credit inclusion/exclusion is ALL or None currently. If included, Customers cannot distinguish between what has been invoiced post migra...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

DEPLOY-SENTRY — Automatic canary analysis of deploys using golden signals in Instana

Automatic canary analysis of deploys using golden signals.
about 4 hours ago in Instana / SRE Submitted