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Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add support of markdown or HTLM syntax in the Apptio BI text box widget

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add hyperlinks, color by creating the message in other tool then past in the text box an...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Can we get pod level (or) workload level cost details in reports just like we get these details from the container insights section ?

Hi Team, In container Insights section, we get data as per cluster, namespace, workload, and pod level if we drill down. But in CLDY reports section, we can only use namespace to filter, do we have functionality where we can get workload or pod le...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Future consideration

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Create a Public Page with SevOne SNMP Certification Listing

Customers are interested in seeing the SevOne SNMP Certification Listing as it will help them identify if their devices need to go thru a certification process
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 Not under consideration