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Have more than 5 dimensions that can be added within a plan

Hi,We would like the ability to add more than five dimensions to a plan. This flexibility is important for us, as we often need to filter and analyze data across multiple dimensions to meet various business needs. Different business units have uni...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 4 Under review

Ability to select tags to consider in generating anomalies

Currently the anomaly detection works based on the account, service name, usage family and few tags which cloudability assumes which has highest coverage.Issue with this:Because it doesn't let users to select which tags to consider when generating...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Planned for future release

Add Project Setting to define an alternating row color for non-report tables in TBM Studio

As a TBMA, I would like to see alternating row colors for all non-report tables displayed throughout TBM Studio. The setting would be applied to any table not displayed on reports (inclusive of those displayed in Object views, Allocation Strategie...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Apptio AI Assistant to assist on Conversational Reporting

Apptio AI Assistant is an AI-powered IT finance expert that simplifies reporting, insights, and budgeting. Users can ask questions in plain language and get real-time, data-driven answers. With Generative AI and advanced analytics. Use Cases1. Con...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Ability to adjust column width of label in Detailed View

To improve the readability and ensure the label doesn't "bunch up" when the title is long, we can adjust the following aspects: Increase Label Width: We can increase the width of the label to provide more space for long titles, preventing text fro...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics.  To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of tre...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration