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Ability to Filter by Location

Add the ability to filter by the Standard Dimension: Location
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Improve Extension Adjustment on Contracts tab for YoY Changes

Currently, when applying the extension adjustment in coordination with the Extend feature on the contracts tab, it is applying this percentage to the first extension, but not future years. This means that if clients are trying to multiyear plan an...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

When running Stanctl up, it should be possible to run without doing an update.

If there is a new version of backend available. You can`t run Stanctl up without doing an update or cancel Stanctl up. It should be possible to do an Stanctl without update. Because if you have some issue and have to restore VM. You want to run st...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Let the API actions be seen in the Action Log

We found out that under Security and Access -> Audit trail -> Action log, only the actions done using the Instana UI are shown. The actions done via the API are not. It would improve auditability and security to be able to see the actions do...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

need to add an option to convert and show currency in Million to Crores

The customer currently contributes an ACV of USD 192K and is one of the very few India-based customers using Apptio. Their financial reporting is managed in Crores rather than Millions, which makes it difficult for them to track KPIs effectively w...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists

Instana to instrument IBM Financial Transaction Manager and ODM for Payments

Bank client wants to use Instana to monitor traces, metrics and logs from IBM Financial Transaction Manager. Asking for Instana to support FTM observability. Goal is end-to-end observability in Financial Transaction Manager to reduce MTTR for FTM....
2 months ago in Instana / WAS 4 Functionality already exists

Checksum Verification for Build Files

Include a checksum verification file (e.g., SHA256 or MD5) with the build so that users can confirm the integrity of downloaded files. This process helps confirm that the files were accurately downloaded and are safe to use.
2 months ago in SevOne / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Apptio Planning: Save Budget/Forecast Comparisons in Layouts

BACKGROUND: I created comparisons in my forecast for current and future years against another budget. Due to my plan length (5 years), I had to add comparisons via the individual columns (right clicking column header - Add Comparison...) and not t...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists