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Cloudability should enable GCP ancestry names, not just numbers

GCP detailed billing export has both, the GCP Ancestry Number and GCP Ancestry Name. Ancestry numbers are unique, but hard to read for the human, they are really useful for cost allocation logic setup. Ancestry names (names of all the folders in t...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

The ability to generate a unique URL for each report tab and date range within the same report

In Apptio Costing, report URLs can currently only be shared in the default tab and date range state. We would like to request an enhancement to allow issuing unique URLs for non-default tabs and date ranges. Because the lack of these features is l...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Submitted

Reserved Instance/ Saving Plans Report

This report will provide insights on the RI/SP savings on the whole tenant. At the moment there are missing Cost List values which makes the report obsolete.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Watson AIOps Container Monitoring Enhancement - Dynatrace Metadata Configuration

Currently, the Bank of America has a monitoring solution in place to monitor Watson AIOps containers running on NOI 1.6.13 Hybrid Cloud. While all configurations have been completed, we are unable to monitor all namespaces simultaneously. Each tim...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Needs more information

Instana Reporting Capability

We have notice that Instana does not have reporting capabilities like Grafana reporting or Tivoli Common Reporting. We are requesting to add following reporting capabilities: Automated Scheduling: Schedule regular reports, including daily, weekly,...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 3

Create Custom Tabs with Template Choice

In Apptio Planning, we would like the ability to separate out different costs that require specific columns. Currently we do not have the ability to make required columns dynamic based off of data selection, even though its a contract, different c...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enable Sorting of List/Board Views by Progress Column

Currently, Targetprocess does not allow sorting entities by the Progress field in List/Board views. This limitation makes it difficult to quickly identify items with the least or most progress. It would be helpful to provide the ability to sort by...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Message-queue-based Telemetry Data Ingestion

Based on TS022887888, in addition to the existing "agent >> telemetry data >> acceptor >> rest of the backend" flow, customer would like to send raw telemetry data from Instana agent to a messaging queue; then Instana backend to ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration