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Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Improve Email Notifications for Multi-level Approval Workflow

When testing the multi-level approval workflow, we encountered the following two issues: 1. A submitter of the Cost Object will never know if the plan is returned or approved via email notification. So, the owner of that level would need to commun...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Needs more information

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 3

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Add a extra set of Variance Drivers and Comment to Variance Analysis so we can explain deviations year to date and also for the FY forecast

We are doing a monthly forecast and Variance analysis YTD so we can explain (add comments) to deviations from Budget to Actuals, In example Jan-Sep in October Forecast. But it will also be very helpfull if we also could do it for the Full Year to ...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration