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Embedded AI/ML System for Automated Business Mapping Suggestions in Apptio Cloudability

The proposed feature introduces an embedded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) engine within Apptio Cloudability that continuously learns from customer-specific resource tags and usage patterns. Based on this learning, the system...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Allocate static costs or credits to a specific business unit to ensure actuals against your budget is accurate in CFP

We have a couple of active scenarios: #1 we've got vendors who contribute to cloud cost that have no formal integration into Cloudability. In those instances the costs stay the same every month and its charged to a specific business unit, we want ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Planned for future release

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Propagating 'Cost Sharing' module to Dashboards through filters

We would like to be able to leverage the Cost Sharing module to propagate the same results to widgets for any dashboards. I think this should be easily achievable through adding filters on the dashboard page to toggle between 'Cost Sharing' and 'N...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1

Ability to select multiple Business Dimensions and use 'Views' to filter by Cloud Provider.

We are unable to utilize the cost sharing model as it does not allow for selecting multiple dimensions (i.e. Not Set or untagged bucket). We are also unable to utilize views by AWS, OCI, GCP or Azure to ensure only one of the providers can be redi...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 2 Needs more information

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