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Drill report filter: display natural message for chosing "(Blank)"

Currently, filter message looks strange in case "(Blank)" choosing. Appreciate if change this message. 1. Click value to show drill down report on OOTB report. 2. If click non "Blank" value, its filter message is fine. 3. If click "Blank", its f...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Provide a metric that shows actual usage of Azure disk drives along with allocated space.

Azure provides an ability to conduct a dynamic life resizing upward on disk drives, but not decrease in size. All current products and the Azure Portal will only show allocated drive space. We are unable to accurately determine if we over commit o...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Allow sorting and Top X result limits in ApptioBI stacked column graphs with two dimensions to be determined by total column measure height for the first dimension

The same concept applies to stacked bar graphs. Problem: Right now the sorting and Top X results limit are determined by the measure value for the the intersection of Dimension 1 and Dimension 2. This leads to odd sorting in the graph where the ta...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Planned for future release

csv data exports from ApptioBIvisuals with more than one layers should be delivered in a single file rather than a file per layer

Problem:Right now if a data export is generated for a graph visual with multiple layers configured, the export email will contain one file link per layer. For example, the S3 Storage Cost by Tier Graph in the AWS Services Overview report has seven...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Allow the focus integracion Data Azure

we need that the data are synchronized without replace all forward slashes "/" to minus "-" in the BillingAccountId column in the csv file. This is very operational and consumes too much time on a daily basis.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 2 Not under consideration

Proposal: Introduce Yellow Checkmark for Partial Azure Credential Permissions

Team, From what I understand about Azure credential behavior today: 1) For basic credentials, a green tick appears when the minimum permissions to pull billing data are present. However, key permissions like billing:EnrollmentReader (alghough not ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 6 Functionality already exists

IBM SevOne NMS upgrades should allow for limit or throttling of ssh connections

During a production upgrade for IBM SevOne NMS, a Palo Alto Networks firewall adaptive security policy automatically blocked traffic between IBM SevOne NPM peers due to excessive network traffic on TCP port 22. SevOne NPM uses Ansible to perform c...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

Instana Mule ESB V4.x Support

It is critical for the Mule ESB sensor to support more current versions of the product. Specifically v 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.5.0. The only current support for the sensor is version 3.X, Mule 3 is in "extended support" and Mule 4.1.x and 4.2.x are end...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration