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Email subscription on a report should report data even if the data source is not part of your default view

When a user in Cloudability subscribes to a report in order to receive the report on email, the result in the email report will return 0 if the data source (for example account name) is not a part of the users default view. Meaning, that if a user...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
16 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Financial Year under 'Pick a Time Period' in Cloudability Native Dashboards & Reporting

Cenitex have requested a 'Financial Year' time filter for reporting in Cloudability Native Dashboards & reports. Attached screenshot of where it'd be applied. This small addition would be a huge productivity increase for many finance teams who...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Allow users to select only columns required from exports and enable that selection to be static

We export the data and import/upload into power bi models to enable efficient trending of opportunities. When exporting from Rightsizing you only have the option to export all data, we want users to have the option of just exporting the data that ...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
17 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Ability to Import/export functionality for Account Groups (Organize) to update them in bulk

With over 400+ account groups in Cldy env, it is difficult to identify which Account groups are tagged with the required group values and which are not. Tried the same using API but not very helpful. The idea here is to have an Export option - whi...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Freeze Environment and Settings When Scrolling Down

When in a BI report and scrolling down to various visualizations you lose the Environment box, along with the Current View box. Need that to stay in place/be visible when scrolling down.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Monitoring Postilion with Instana

Using an Instana tool to monitor and do tracing on Postilion is useful for Capitec bank because it helps ensure that payment services—such as ATM, POS, and online transactions—run smoothly, quickly, and reliably. It gives real-time visibility into...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted