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Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Allow api access to Apptio bi data sources for reporting

There is no API for Apptio BI at present. It would be very useful to be able to extract data from the datasources that can be reported on via the UI in Apptio BI. This would add value in at least these use cases 1) ability to programatically extra...
4 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
8 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Display multiple owners for 1 application

For 1-to-many relationships, I’m looking for a feature that allows the “many” values to display on a single row in reporting (separated by a character, e.g. semi-colon) instead of just displaying an ellipses indicating Various. In addition to maki...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
10 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Parking feature support for ARO clusters

Parking feature support for ARO clusters: currently, it is only included in the roadmap for AKS clusters. Bradesco is one of the largest banks in Brazil, and Azure is their main cloud service provider, with many applications running on ARO clusters.

Ability to compare APDEX against the previous week, previous window, or previous release.

By comparing APDEX across different timeframes or versions, users should be able to quickly spot performance trends (e.g., improvement, decline, stability) and identify any unexpected deviations or anomalies that require further investigation. The...
16 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted