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API for creating hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions

It is cumbersome to have to manually create hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions esp when the mappings change more than once a month. Please provide an API for creation of hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions
2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

JIRA Archive functionality in TargetProcess

Jira has implemented Archiving functionality which works as a "soft delete" and makes the item view only. For synced items, you are able to modify the TargetProcess entity, and the change is not applied to the Jira item. Additionally, JIRA achieve...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Submitted

Bulk Edit for Versioned Tables

Adding the ability to bulk edit versions (create/delete) would allow for easier management of table versioning in Apptio.
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey.

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey. I point you to what other financial analysis tools can do he...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Under review

Export csv files in both US and non-US locale

If we are exporting data using a csv, the default number decimal separator is "." However in for instance Europe and South America we use the comma "," as a decimal separator. This means if we export a csv the comma needs to replaced by another se...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Reports, Dashboards 0

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

Provide and option to adjust the display names for Departments and Projects dropdown in the ITP UI based on client's naming convention to make it more user friendly

We are facing a situation where we need to use two different hierarchies within Planning: a regional hierarchy and a product line hierarchy. The product line hierarchy will also be used for the approval flow, with product line owners and product m...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Option to ensure targets also get filtered by project hierarchy

Currently, there is an option only to set/view targets at department level. We need an option to give or at least show Top-down-targets for both projects and departments. Currently, project owners see the full target value at each level within the...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release