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Filter to be included in links

The email function of sending a link (with Global Filters as part of the email link) to a user or sharing a report with a user would increase Apptio usage at a leadership level instead of taking screenshots in PowerPoint. Suggestion: allow filters...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 2

Ability for users to manage email notifications.

Ability for users to be able to opt in or out of receiving emails from Apptio.  
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Monitior Kafka Broker Certificate Validity

we are very happy with your Kafka Monitoring solution. There is one per broker metric which we believe is also worth monitoring. That is the validity of the SSL Certificate provided by the broker. If the certificates expire, the whole cluster stop...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Functions monitoring support

Hi, are there any plans for supporting monitoring on serverless platforms, particularly Google Cloud Functions or is there already a solution? Currently we are using Java Cloud Functions, but we also used Javascript based ones in the past. Third o...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting

We need the swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting. We are configuring custom events to trigger on swap memory. Currently, both the Memory > Swap Free and Memory > Swap Total metrics are measured in Bytes. They need to be a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Rightsizing Preferences - More exclusion instance type values

Currently we are able to add only 10 instance type values which is blocking us to exclude more instance type as per our organization standard. IBM cloudability team should allow client to provide more values and there should be dropdown available ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

SDP support for Azure Managed Identity authentication with Kafka-compatible interface to Azure Event Hub

For SDP (Kafka), SevOne does not currently support Azure Managed Identity directly for Azure Event Hub. Can we add this feature?
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) 0 Future consideration

Grafana Instana Plugin dashboard features

We have integrated the Instana with Grafana for dashboarding and have observed that some of the below features are missing which will help in creating better dashboards for customers. 1) TopN - To show the top N Utilized nodes 2) Option to filter ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration