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Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

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

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...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Planned for future release

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Needs more information

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration