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Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Is a defect

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Apptio BI - Reorder tabs in a report

Hello everyone, I'm a bit surprised, but It is currently not possible to change the order of the tabs in an Apptio BI report. just opened a case and the support told me : After some research and experimenting, you cannot move the tabs after creati...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Parking Support for Openshift Machines managed by MachineSets

Customers run OpenShift on top of CSP's like AWS, and would therefore benefit from both the efficiency and cost savings enabled by Turbonomic's parking functionality.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Future consideration

RightSizing ROI screen should retain filters when you change data view

I am looking at the RightSizing ROI screens. I need to quickly flip between data views, whilst retaining the filter(s) that I have applied, to show different colleagues the effects that their changes have achieved.Every time I change the data view...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add a column to the Connections page to show the Time period the data loads to so it's easier to update connections to the next Fiscal Year

We have over 225 datalink connections, some of which post the ingested data to a specific month (the beginning of our Fiscal Year). Since there is currently no column to show which month the data will post to, we have to review every connection in...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Re-order pages

Introduce the possibility to re-order the pages in an ApptioBI report. When you create the report and the pages, maybe you don't have a clear vision of how many pages will you finally create and which order makes sense. Also for existing reports y...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration