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Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration

Total Cost Default Calendar Settings

In order to view the last full month of cloud activity,  we would like to set the default month to last month not current month.
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 4 Under review

Insights on usage

It would be nice to have some tracking information regarding the usage of some views/reports/dashboards/boards. Every so often, we review the left navigation in ATP and try to minimize the length of it. Knowing that views are used a lot vs. never ...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Future consideration

Allow Dex to run on multiple appliances

Currently in SSO set-ups Dex runs on 1 appliance. This makes SSO hard to function in environments behind load balancers as not every appliance is running the daemon and the requests may not come from the Cluster Leader
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

Apptio Costing:::Ability to rename metrics in TBM Studio

Currently without any way to rename a metric, if users dislike the initial name, a new metric needs to be created and all allocations and model objects added to that metric. Additionally all report components need to be updated to use the new metr...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

As any user in the system with no edit permissions for the user, I can change the language for any user in the system

When I click into a user in Targetprocess I can change their language that it displays for them. I should not be able to do that as any user. I feel like that should be a personal or admin thing to do and not just open to anyone.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Future consideration

Layered widgets in dashboarding

Dashboards where one can layer the widgets, and also resize as needed to fit anywhere.Bring to front/ Move to back and all that good stuff :). Appdynamics has it right in this regard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPvtcb9dGM
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Export Targetprocess Service Logs to CSV/JSON for Debugging and Analysis

Introduce a native capability in IBM Targetprocess to export system/service logs (e.g., API calls, background jobs, integration events, error traces) into structured formats such as CSV and JSON. This feature should allow users to: Filter logs by ...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Submitted

Support OCI list cost ingestion separately from billed cost in Cloudability

Feature Request Cloudability’s OCI integration appears to ingest List Cost and Billed Cost as the same value. This makes it difficult for customers to understand the difference between Oracle’s published pricing and the discounted pricing actually...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

ThoughtSpot AI - Spotter functionality available for customers

Hello, as Turbonomic consultant, it will be nice to have TS Spotter functionalities inside TS. As this is an AI tool, it will help reduce time used on creating liveboards, answers, etc.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration