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Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

Export directly in xls or xlsx format

It would be useful to have the possibility to directly export into a more common Excel format next to the csv format.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Update DI Device Summary to use High Speed Interface Metric

While reviewing a specific device's Device Summary in DI (7.2.3), the Interface Speed metric seems to be capped at 4294967295, the highest integer able to be stored on 32-bit systems. This seems to be pulling the out-of-the-box z-ifSpeed device in...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Is a defect

Dismiss informational Reminders

There is not a way currently to permanently dismiss informational alerts. Currently each person gets a prompt about some billing data not being available, even though the billing families in question aren't relevant to the users or the Turbonomic ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Surface time of last data reprocess and data refetch

There is no visibility at the moment when the last data reprocess occurred. This is especially pertinent after creating a business mapping as we would like to know when a data reprocess has happened so we can safely use the business mapping to cre...

System Integration between Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism

We are using both IBM products (Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism). Apptio Planning is our IT Finance forecasting tool while IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism is our global centralized forecasting tool for the company. At the moment we are s...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration