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Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Add Search Functionality in Entity History Section for Improved Field Tracking

Currently, each entity has a history section where we can see the update history of each field. When there are only a few fields, the current UI works well. However, for entities with 100+ fields that are kept for long periods, tracking the histor...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Planned for future release

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Need to be able to send out reports in PDF/CSV by email

Dear Colleagues, we have a tender where customer is interested in sending regular reports from Instana to management with statuses and current numbers. We have ability to create custom dachboards and generate PDF/CSV of them, please consider addin...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

IBM CIO: Provide an easy feature to communicate messages using a banner at the top of Targetprocess.

IBM CIO is a large deployment of Apptio tool sets including Targetprocess and expanding. Often times we have product upgrades, migrations or SaaS maintenance upgrades. We need the ability to configure a communication message to our users what will...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Custom Hierarchy on List Views

When a custom hierarchy is in place (ex: skipping the Epic layer and connect Portfolio Epics straight to Features) the " Show 4th hierarchy level" does not show the custom hierarchy but the default one, making it useless. Having the opportunity to...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 4 Planned for future release

Export directly in xls or xlsx format

It would be useful to have the possibility to directly export into a more common Excel format next to the csv format.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release