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Latent Vacuum Engine v2.2: 6 White Hole Bursts in 100k Cycles — Area Law to 10⁻¹⁶

**Description**: - **GHZ benchmark** for ibm_sherbrooke/brisbane **Fault-tolerant** via boundary scaling **Photonic interconnect** via HOM V = T **Analog gravity** on silicon photonics **Who benefits?** - IBM Quantum team (2026 advantage) Almaden ...
7 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Add AI-specific Benchmarking Categories to Apptio Benchmarking Summary View

Request to add AI-specific benchmarking categories aligned with TBM v5 to Apptio, enabling organizations to compare AI-related costs against industry standards for better financial planning and transparency through the Benchmarking Summary view.
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Submitted

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Align Boxplot series with the datatable columns below

Box plots in benchmarking are misaligned with the data table below and are visually confusing. For example, Telecom appears to belong to Other. Adjusting the data table to align with the chart series / columns would make interpreting the data much...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Interactive BenchMarking Translation (Japanese)

Interactive BenchMarking is not translated into Japanese. It would be very convenient for Japan customers if it is translated like other products.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

Interactive Benchmarking: Do not allow Minimum < $0

As a Service Owner or TBM Analyst, I'd like for the Benchmarking Minimums to always be > $0.  This will enable more meaningful conversations about cost efficiency - and foster trust in the Apptio tool. -When an Infrastructure IT Sub-Tower ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

Benchmarking manually entry output will not allow to go back to 0.

When manually entering the FTE Data Review we are unable to change the output from 1 to 0. It was defaulted as 0 before accidentally changed and now no way to get it back. When changing from 1 to 2 this works just not back to 0.
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 1 Not under consideration