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Ability to pin left navigation panel open in IT Planning.

Admin related sections of IT Planning (e.g. Configuration), and CT report collections panels can be pinned open using the double arrow near the top of the left panel.   This is not the case for Reporting sections of IT Planning (e.g. Pl...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Future consideration

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
12 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Mouseover to give column explanations

Hi all,  we use a wide range of columns in APPTIO Planning, which at time can be confusing to end users.  We would like to give end users some more input and thought something like a mouseover-functionality would be a great way to show ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Bookmarking Cost Transparency Reports with User preference selections

Hello P&E team,  Would like to share a strong demand from our user's point of view where they would like to save or bookmark one of our customized reports in Cost Transparency on the selection they have made prior to saving the snapshot. ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Functionality already exists

Ability for users to manage email notifications.

Ability for users to be able to opt in or out of receiving emails from Apptio.  
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / WAS 2 Not under consideration

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration

Help functionality improvements.

Currently, the only help available takes you to the generic Apptio hello screens. This is not useful for our users because it in no way reflects the CBA model or reports or with CBA specific information. Suggestion: Ability to add field descriptio...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted