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Workload planning tool does not allow for set features on SKUs such as accelerated networking or CPU brand preferences

I have multiple workload that are optimized for Intel CPUs and require accelerated networking or accelerated write functionality (M-series). I would like to be able to identify those SKUs when planning large workloads.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Future consideration

Improved tag tracking for compliance percentage

I want to incorporate tag compliance percentage into its own dashboard within apptio BI and show a pie chart of how many resources are untagged, or partially tagged.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

possibility to monitor Temenos T24 Core Banking application (Transact) running on Openshift

Many customers evaluating Instana is in banking space. There are multiple such customers running Temenos. So, supporting Temenos T24 (Transact) on Openshift would be a big plus.
11 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Future consideration

Lock widgets from dynamic filtering

I would like the ability to lock widgets from the global filters. I have my dashboard separated by the reporting timeframe and I want to keep them from changing with the global filter. Same with selecting custom dimensions from the global filters....
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Improved forecast data in BI charts (Based off last complete day)

Id like to see improved forecasting from historical data based off of set lookback periods. Ideally this would be available within an Apptio BI widget visualization to show what the next week/month/quarter spend will be based off the last complete...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Show cloud native naming schema

I need to see the cloud specific naming for services such as SQL managed instance vs SQL Server and SQL database instead of the generalized fields. This makes it much easier to review spend with the application owners and understand which resource...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Under review

Show spend variance based off of day adjusted months

I need to see how much is spent as a daily average for the month to show real change. Its not useful to see February spending 10% less than January simply because theres less days. Id like to see the real variance on the day to day operations.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Not under consideration

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

New chart types in Apptio Cost Transparency

A few of my stakeholders have requested different chart types that Apptio does not support so if new charts could be added in a future release, that would provide some variety on dashboards. Executives receive reports from different systems, so it...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Planned for future release

Incident Summarization - After generating Summary, the generated summary should be added to the ServiceNow Incident

to reduce number of clicks, if a user opens a servicenow incident, the incident should have as much information from AIOps as possible. it doesn't need to change the short or long description of the incident. if it could be placed in the work note...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review