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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...
9 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

In IT Planning the client wants to see in one tab the ability to show labour activities and the financial outcomes without having to move between tabs

Because it means an easier UI experience for the user
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Difficult to check what the changes have been made

Can we make group by in the top ? by the plan ?then by the amount ? so we can check how much amount was added or removed in the timeframe selected, filters of cost centre or others can be provided ( this should be visible to Admins and also for Co...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Cloudability to Ingest Azure Data via Private Endpoint

Description: We have a security policy that would need an exceptions process to be able to adopt Cloudability for Azure. We request an enhancement to allow Cloudability to ingest Azure cost and usage data through Azure Private Link or similar priv...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Expand the Cloudability Scorecard Capabilities Across AWS Services and extend the Historical View

Currently Scorecard component in Cloudability provides valuable insights , but its scope is limited primarily to AWS Compute Services and a 30-day view. This restricts our ability to measure optimization maturity and track long term improvements a...
3 months ago in Cloudability 0 Under review

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration