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When two metrics are plotted with a widget having different frequency of data collection both should display consistently, line, area or point.

When the two widgets are placed in a custom dashboard showing two metrics that are collected with different interval with Line or Area mode, it display differently for each metrics. This happens when the two metrics were added to the same widget. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Agent-side redaction of URL path segments before reporting to the backend

Problem Instana's secrets mechanism redacts query parameter values in the agent, before anything is sent to the backend. There is no equivalent for path segments. Any personal identifier carried in a URL path is therefore transmitted to and retain...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Other Tracers 0 Planned for future release

Apptio Planning - Cost Object Permission Hierarchical View missing on Plan Level

We would like to have a Hierarchical View available within Plan Level Permissions, similar to the functionality provided for Cost Object Permissions. This enhancement would allow users to easily navigate the hierarchy and identify cost objects tha...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Ability to create Gantt Chart in Reporting Studio

Many customers use Apptio for project and delivery reporting, application rationalisation & transformation initiatives reporting. While Reporting Studio has some strong features, there is currently no native Gantt chart visualisation for displ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Policy Manager

When creating many merge and DNP policies across environment, it becomes difficult to manage for hundreds of clusters. Superclustering requires minimum 2-3 policies to be made on a per cluster basis. Having a central dashboard detailing each clust...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

VM Redundancy and Placement Affinity during Superclustering

VM Redundancy - Customer needs a way to spread certain workloads around cluster. IE - multiple DB workloads cannot exist on the same host due to risk aversion policies internally. Turbo has no way of mapping this automatically without creating hun...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Dynamic Group selection for Merge Policies

Customer would like to see dynamic/custom groups pop up during Merge policy selection. Currently, host need to be identified using a common naming convention only and added to the merge policy. However, if more clusters are created or current clus...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Add Distinction between Cross Cluster and Within Cluster Placement Actions

Currently there is no way to distinguish from the action center or from the action description pane whether a placement/move action is cross cluster or within cluster (assuming merge policies have been created and configured correctly). The custom...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Count Metrics in Apptio BI

Count Metrics: Create a visualization/metric to display the total count of account numbers, including unique account numbers
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Not under consideration

Openshift Cluster Monitoring - Namepsace specifc

We need Cluster Registration & Metadata for specific namespaces excluding node information in Kubernetes Infra. The OpenShift platform team will not grant cluster-wide permissions (ClusterRole) required to deploy the Instana k8s-sensor via Ins...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Under review