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Restrict Visibility of Infrastructure Events

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Is a defect

Proper Version Control of Scheduling Objects

Currently, the version control of scheduling objects is directly tied to the audit logs. This means that if you modify an object older than the value set in the global option auditHistory (default is 400 days), you lose the ability to see what was...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Needs more information

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Per-Vendor Exchange Rate Configuration for Multi-Currency System

Today, Cloudability’s Multi-Currency System (MCS) allows organizations to consolidate costs into a single currency using a global exchange rate. However, many enterprises operate in environments where each vendor or contract may use a different ex...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Node High Availability

This feature request aims to enhance the high availability (HA) of Data Insight. Currently, SDI nodes operate as single-node Kubernetes clusters, with the ability to form multi-node clusters by designating one node as the control plane. However, d...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Enable MSP Control Over Sample Dashboards During User Creation

In MSP and reseller environments, MSPs often manage AWS reservations and savings plans on behalf of their customers. Currently, the EC2 reservation sample dashboard is enabled by default for all newly created users at the customer level and cannot...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration