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Apptio BI - Limit number of "legend items" on charts to aid visibility

Apptio BI stacked bar charts require the ability to limit the number of items to include in the widget (example, "limit results to: "). For our cloud reporting, we want to use a widget to showcase a stacked chart of Cloud services used. For our en...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Under review

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Extend Cost Sharing functionality

Better Cost Sharing functionality multi-vendor. Cost Sharing in multiple Business Mappings but filtered in one view.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration