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Save Filter Presets for Summary and Dashboard Views

Description: Currently, there is no option to save layouts or applied filters in the Summary View or Dashboard View. Each time users access these views, filters must be reapplied manually. Proposed Improvement: Introduce the ability to save preset...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Save Expand/Collapse State in Expense View Layout Presets

Currently: Layout presets in the Expense view do not retain the expanded or collapsed state of grouped columns. When a preset is applied, only column arrangement, grouping, sorting, and filters are restored, while expand/collapse settings are rese...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Custom delimiter symbol

Enable the definition of a custom delimiter during data export and/or restrict the use of predefined delimiters within input fields used by the tool. The currently used delimiters (; and ,) are also commonly present in description fields, which ca...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

adding IBM ACE application tag to the alerts

Instana is currently sending alerts for IBM ACE message flow stoppages; however, the alerts do not include the corresponding application name. This makes it difficult to identify which application the stopped message flow belongs to. Including the...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Decouple Business Metric reprocessing from Business Dimension reprocessing.

Why is it useful? Currently, "Reprocessing" is a destructive action for historical data integrity. FinOps practitioners often need to create new efficiency KPIs (Business Metrics) and apply them to historical data to spot trends. However, because ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Instana: Add a 'Maintenance-Aware' filter/toggle to the Events View to hide muted events"

Problem Statement Currently, when a Maintenance Window is active, Instana correctly suppresses notifications (Alerting Channels). However, the Events view continues to display all triggered events regardless of the maintenance status. During large...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

ITCAM MQ - Enable AMQP Channel Type Monitoring

The ITCAM MQ Agent does not support monitoring of AMQP channel types. As a result, the AMQP channel status appears as 'Inactive' in ITM, so you are unable to create a situation to monitor the status of AMQP channels Can ITCAM MQ agent be amended t...
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

More granular options

Current anomaly detection scope at subscription level is too broad for practical use. We would like to see anomaly detections based on resource groups, instead of subscription. Because subscription is too big. Right now we can't use this feature. ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review