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Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files vs only having it send to January and replacing monthly files. When loading files from ITP to CT would like the flexibility to have it drop in different months. For example Jan – drop...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

Spend Management in Planning to have option of defaulting to current fiscal year when logged in

The customer is currently on FY25 but the Spend Management opens once logged in to FY26. They would like a way to avoid manually picking the right fiscal year before updating their monthly actuals. Requesting an enhancement within Planning like TB...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Is a defect

Allow the Group Step to ignore blanks instead of turning them into {Various}

We receive a data file that for a single key the data is across multiple rows, see example picture attached. (A similar common scenario is appended data with new columns that duplicates a key, however in this case we know the columns and can use a...
11 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Asset Depreciation

Currently selecting straight line by depreciation the calculation is Purchase Price divided by Asset life (in months). Is there a way the calculation could be Net Book Value divided by Remaining life.  This is way Oracle calculates and to upl...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Custom Reference data fields dependency-ITP

Custom Reference data fields dependency in ITP- would like an option to allow automated population of the fields based on entries to other fields which have related content.
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration