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Apptio Costing:::Default time period roll forward options

This idea is to add a configuration to automatically roll forward the default time period in TBM Studio projects. Currently this can only be done manually. It would be helpful to be able to set a rule like current month - 1, or current month, so t...
8 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow weighting by fields with mix of positive and negative numbers

Currently within TBM Studio, if you create an allocation, it is really tempting to choose "weight by number" or "weight by metric" to allocate a quantity. However, if there is ANY chance that the column providing the weighting will have a mixture ...
8 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Group metrics into folders

The project explorer lists metrics alphabetically without respect for use-cases. This idea is to introduce the ability for a TBM Administrator to group metrics into folders by use case. This would help people creating reports to select the appropr...
8 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Automatic granularity

A common challenge in TBM Studio configuration is finding and eliminating "various" throughout the model. This represents where granularity is lost through grouping down data, and it will impact allocations and reporting. This idea is to implement...
8 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
18 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted