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The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Labour Actuals

We were wondering to request to  labor actuals in the same way we load cost actuals via spend management . At the moment the labour actuals can be overwritten or deleted in error by users. Having this option would lock the actuals for labour ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add email subscription option for Cloudability Optimize Rightsizing Recommendations

Problem:Right now a user can only retrieve rightsizing recommendations relevant to them by going into the Optimize Rightsizing UI, applying relevant filters to narrow it down to infrastructure thei own and seeing if there are any results. This is ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4 Future consideration

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration