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Allow CFP to forecast using any business metric

Open up CFP to allow to forecast any metric, built-in or custom . This would enable other use cases for customers. For example, allowing forecasting of sustainability metrics would allow carbon forecasting.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
about 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Adding Feature as an option to Timesheets

Currently, the timesheets default solution - Time Sheet - IBM Documentation only includes bugs, test runs, requests, tasks and user stories. Medica reports time at the Feature level, and we're asking if the Feature level can be pulled into this so...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Option to apply slicers to select columns in a report table

The customer has a use case where they are building reports off of a single master table with various types of values appended. They would like to be able to customize how slicers are applied to a report table, so that the slicer only affects cert...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Anomaly Detection Auto Creation of Incidents in JIRA

Currently any Anomaly Event created in Cloudability can only be generated by: - a single email or shared email - Pager Duty - manual invocation into a JIRA ticket It would be far more efficient for the same functionality used by Rightsizing Polici...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Effective monitoring of Windows Servers in SevOne,

We are facing issues with WMI polling which is breaking frequently and Windows Natively doesn't support SNMP v3( v2 is not needed as less secure) . What is the alternative solution to monitor the Windows servers in SevOne .
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Needs more information

Add seasonality on service and endpoint level to Smart Alerts

Add seasonality on service and endpoint level to Smart Alerts.Currently(backend v323) alerting seasonality e.g. on throughput is only available on application perspective level.Please extend capability to service or even endpoint level.Thanks a lo...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Elastic native cloudability connector

Connector to extract usage and cost data from Elastic
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Feature Request: Support for Legacy/Alternative MariaDB Authentication Methods in Sensor

We are requesting a feature update or backward compatibility support regarding the MariaDB Sensor. Following recent internal changes to the sensor code, our current environment is encountering errors which are logged every minute in the Instana ag...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add IP Restrictions to API Usage

Currently once an API key has been created, the user can run APIs from anywhere, personal laptops, outside of the US, etc. This is very concerning to our Security folks. It would be beneficial if we could add an IP Restriction to the APIs to limit...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Other 0