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Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
16 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Month Picker while Importing reference data from Costing to Planning

We are using Costing integration due to some features we need missing in ADM. While importing reference data via Costing Integration, we would like the option of having month selection as an option to bring in Ref data from Costing into Planning
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Add Native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Support for instana-agent-k8sensor in Instana Helm Chart

The Instana Helm chart for instana-agent-k8sensor currently does not support native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) configuration. During a recent incident (Case TS020011638), a memory usage spike occurred post-AMI update, reaching 140% of the co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Feature Enhancement Request: Turbonomic vCore Optimization Visibility

Proposed Enhancement Enhance the Turbonomic UI and reporting tools to include: vCore Delta Metrics Show the number of vCores added or removed per optimization action. Include timestamps and affected VM identifiers. Historical Tracking Maintain a l...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Feature Enhancement Request: VM Extension-Based Filtering, Search, and Grouping

Benefits Operational Efficiency: Quickly identify and remediate VMs with missing or failed extensions. Compliance & Monitoring: Ensure all VMs meet required extension configurations. Automation Support: Enable scripting and automation based on...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
16 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted