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Email subscription on a report should report data even if the data source is not part of your default view

When a user in Cloudability subscribes to a report in order to receive the report on email, the result in the email report will return 0 if the data source (for example account name) is not a part of the users default view. Meaning, that if a user...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Apptio BI Report/dashboard to be used as the default Landing page for Cloudability

Hi team, As the customer is extensively using Apptio BI reports , the idea is to have a BI report as a default landing page instead of Cldy Dashboards. The customer team is working on shifting (to) and enabling the BI feature to wider teams and ha...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Under review

Can French be included on application language offering ?

Customer might like to have French added on available application lenguages
about 2 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

Scoped Administrative Permissions

Administrative privledges that can be scoped the same way that parker or advisor roles can be scoped.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Under review

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Pin the global Views box on reports

Other controls, such as global filters, are pinned so that they remain on the top of the screen as the user scrolls through the dashboard. Doing the same with Views would allow the customer to quickly see if there are any restrictive views which m...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review