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Enable Top Lists to Display Aggregated Results from Graphs in Custom Dashboards

In Instana custom dashboards, we would like to have a feature that allows a Top List to display the maximum value calculated from data after applying the same aggregation logic as a line chart (e.g., averaging per time interval). Expected Behavior...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Enhance Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Instana RBAC is currently too coarse. When a user is added to a role, they effectively inherit the same full permissions (e.g., view/edit/delete). We need more granular access control so we can apply least-privilege access. Current issue Roles c...
5 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 5 Functionality already exists

Improve Export Reports from Instana

Instana could be better if your reports has been simple. and let to integrate for example 1 2 or 3 ...N Lpar statitics in the same reporte CPU, ASP, Active Jobs, Subsistems, etc... because the current export reports are so simple, right now instan...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Left Panel Tornado: option to filter on Favorites

When searching for a view in the left menu, it would be helpful to have a filter checkbox to narrow down the results to "Favorites".
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0

Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Not under consideration

Enable users to retain visibility of the current view in Apptio BI while scrolling down

When navigating through large datasets or dashboards, the view context often disappears as you scroll, making it difficult to know which section or filter you are currently in. Maintaining the view would improve usability and reduce errors when an...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Not under consideration

Azure/GCP: The Instana agent’s config file currently lacks an AND operator for include_tags and exclude_tags

The limitation of the AND/OR operators for include_tags and exclude_tags in the config file is that they currently only support an OR operation, not an AND operation. This means that when multiple tags are specified in include_tags or exclude_tags...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Compute instances (VM) autoshutdown savings through turbonomics need to captured in turbonomic console

Currently, the autoshutdown savings achieved through turbonomics are not captured in turbonomic which implemented will be helpful for cost saving analysis.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic cost optimization need to be integrated into cloudabililty

In turbonomic the cost optimization feature if integrated into cloudability , it will be more helpful
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1

New Carbon Reporting Capability | Heatmap no longer an option | Impacting primary financial reports from proper migration

As we started migrating and modernizing our existing True Cost / TBM Studio reports into the new IBM Apptio Carbon Report Capability, we identified an important gap: heatmap visualizations are a key component in many of our current reports, but th...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0