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Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
over 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

Column Pickers to add new fields to table and save formats

It would be really helpful to choose different columns to see my anomalies broken out by. I would like to include Tag or Business mapping values so that I can see all my anomalies by Team, Application, etc. This is unable to be done today. This co...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Ability to share a link to a report that automatically applies global filters, date selections and tab selection

Problem:Right now if a colleague asks me a question that can be answered by an Apptio BI report with certain filters applied and looking at a specific tab, I need to:Sh Share the link to the report itself Tell them what tab to go to within the rep...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Not under consideration

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

Need for managing release plans (across multiple groups and teams)

The platform should support cross-team and cross-group release planning so that release managers can coordinate and manage release plans spanning multiple teams and organizational groups. This feature benefits release managers, program managers, a...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

No option to move items (such as team members, OKRs, etc.)

Users should be able to move or reassign entities such as team members and OKRs between different portfolios, teams, or organizational contexts within the platform. This feature is critical for portfolio managers and team leads who need to reorgan...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted