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Allow sorting and Top X result limits in ApptioBI stacked column graphs with two dimensions to be determined by total column measure height for the first dimension

The same concept applies to stacked bar graphs. Problem: Right now the sorting and Top X results limit are determined by the measure value for the the intersection of Dimension 1 and Dimension 2. This leads to odd sorting in the graph where the ta...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

csv data exports from ApptioBIvisuals with more than one layers should be delivered in a single file rather than a file per layer

Problem:Right now if a data export is generated for a graph visual with multiple layers configured, the export email will contain one file link per layer. For example, the S3 Storage Cost by Tier Graph in the AWS Services Overview report has seven...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Proposal: Introduce Yellow Checkmark for Partial Azure Credential Permissions

Team, From what I understand about Azure credential behavior today: 1) For basic credentials, a green tick appears when the minimum permissions to pull billing data are present. However, key permissions like billing:EnrollmentReader (alghough not ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

CostAllocationRuleName to be added in Cloudabilty mapping for Datalink

CostAllocationRuleName field should be added to the Cloudability mapping for the cldy_monthly_azure Datalink connector. This field is included in the Usage Details Amortized and Actual Exports which is scheduled daily.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Azure San/NetApp, Netapp files, or Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud support?

Many of these targets are supported in some form or another today on prem, but I'm curious if they can be targeted in the cloud in Azure (or other CSPs)
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

POST Endpoint for Instana Event REST API

Currently there is no simple way to create Alerts or Alert Channels using the Instana API. Only the PUT method exists which can be used to Create or Update these resources. However, these endpoints require unique IDs to perform these actions, whic...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration