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SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Pacemaker Sensor

Pacemaker is essential to ensure true high availability (HA) of your services. Pacemaker Monitoring Objective:Monitor health of the cluster (nodes, quorum, resources, fencing)Measure health of the managed services (e.g. virtual IPs, web services, ...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Parking feature support for ARO clusters

Parking feature support for ARO clusters: currently, it is only included in the roadmap for AKS clusters. Bradesco is one of the largest banks in Brazil, and Azure is their main cloud service provider, with many applications running on ARO clusters.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Future consideration

The data exported from CUR to blob storage includes the 'Unit of Measure' but it is not present in Cloudability. As part of the monthly usage report audit, the 'Unit of Measure' is one of the mandatory dimensions. Could you prioritize adding it?

For the audit, we are comparing the Azure pricing sheet with the Apptio usage report. The rates defined in the table above are based on the 'Unit of Measure.' The 'Unit of Measure' in the Azure pricing sheet and the CUR file differs however the pr...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Needs more information

Ability to compare APDEX against the previous week, previous window, or previous release.

By comparing APDEX across different timeframes or versions, users should be able to quickly spot performance trends (e.g., improvement, decline, stability) and identify any unexpected deviations or anomalies that require further investigation. The...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

2 Step Authentication

I was unable to connect to Tableau since it uses 2-step authentication (POST, then a GET request). It would be useful if Apptio added this feature so I could connect in-house.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Can we have Load time indicator or progress bar to set expectations.

At times, reports in Apptio take significantly longer to load without any prior indication. For example, during a live screen-sharing session where we’re reviewing financials, switching to another report can trigger a long ‘Calculating…’ phase. In...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

New Process for Adding a Contract?

To add a contract, users currently need to navigate to the relevant tab, scroll to the bottom, or right-click to insert a row above or below. Suggested Improvement: Instead of manually inserting rows, what if a form popped up when cost centre owne...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration