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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 14 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...
1 minute 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

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...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 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

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
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Ability to exclude or include Google Credits, by Credit Name, Type & ID, in case of various Migration Credits, Promotional Credits, Billing Adjustments

Ability to exclude or include Google Credits, by Credit Name, Type & ID, in case of various Migration Credits, Promotional Credits, Billing Adjustments In order to view true 'Consumption', v/s Invoiced Net Cost on a day to day basis This imple...
2 minutes ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Cloud Dataflow

Need ability to monitor commitments for ALL the GCP services that are eligible for Commitments, including Cloud Dataflow All GCP Customers using Commitments for Cloud Dataflow Service will benefit from it Enhancement to Cloudability in it's Report...
5 minutes ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput Reservations

Need ability to monitor commitments for ALL the GCP services that are eligible for Commitments, including Vertex AI All GCP Customers using Commitments for Vertex AI Service will benefit from it Enhancement to Cloudability standard in it's Report ...
1 minute ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted