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9 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Ability to Use Multiple “Device Metadata” Variable in a Report

While exploring Data Insight, we found only a single “Device Metadata” variable value could be used as a filter for each report. The ask is to allow multiple “Device Metadata” to be used in given report.
10 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Submitted

Enhanced Hover Interaction for "Roles and Permissions" and "Custom Fields" sections

Currently, in the Roles and Permissions and Custom Fields sections, the Edit and Delete icons are positioned on the far right of each field, making them difficult to click accurately especially when field names are short. This often results in use...
10 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
10 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
27 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Overlay graph with stacked bar in base layer and column in layer 1

Currently, the overlay chart doesn’t function as expected when selecting stacked in the base layer and column in layer 1, as it displays all three metrics as separate bars. It would be valuable to have a feature that supports stacking two metrics ...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted