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Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Add usage data to DI. Both in the GUI and via API.

It would be very useful to know what reports are being used and by which users. Currently, I have no idea what the adoption level of SevOne is.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
17 days ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

setup limits by default to t8c-operator

Telefónica customer is very sensitive to the security and stability of its systems.

RFE: Customer would like the ability to input comments that is over 1600 characters OR provide a threaded comments at the line item level for their Asset impairment process

Customer needs to keep historical decisions for their Asset Impairment process as the asset goes through yearly impairment of useful life. The impairment is at the asset level. The comments serves the propose of tracing the decisions for impairmen...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Allow for additional filter logic - combining attributes with OR as well as And.

In the current functionality, when filters are added, you cannot create logic that is (Account IDs = XXXX) OR (Account Names contain YYY). Not having the flexibility to combine data in this way results in creating additional business mappings that...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Backing up of Apptio BI Reports

Hi , my suggestion is that thru report collections to include also filters and insights meaning to include 100% of the information of Apptio BI reports in the export Json file . maybe with a way to export these thru an API (for further automatizat...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration