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A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

Support/Status/View: Displays the status of all running applications, services, and microservices in a topology view, indicated by color codes (green/yellow/red). Selecting any node or application displays the connected and affected services. Righ...
3 months ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
3 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
12 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Editable Tables: auto-size the 'Find' pop-up window when searching for values in a drop-down list

When a user uses the 'Find' option in a drop-down selection of an Editable table, the size of the pop-up window is fixed. It would be great if this could be auto-sized based on the number of columns available to give users a better experience. See...
3 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
22 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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