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Collapse all view folders at once

I have many views and view folders. The list gets very chaotic as folders are opened. I would like to have a button or feature to collapse/expand all folders at any level from the very top as well as sub-folders. At minimum, the ability to quickly...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Keep parent/child entities together on roadmap views

I would like to be able to group related entities on a Roadmap view. If a roadmap contains parent entities and their children (or another related entity), there is no way I've seen to get them to stay together, which makes it visually very confusi...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

On date selectors, it would be nice to have a "Today" button

When selecting a date on the calendar date selector, it would be nice to have the option to jump to today's date.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

AD groups feature should allow assigning a default view to the group

Recently released AD group integration in Cloudability only allows user to share view with a group. We would want to be able to assign a default view to a group, so any new group member would have a default view assigned scoped to the given group.
2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration