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Show the model object identifier in a pop up window when hovering mouse cursor over the object

It would enable an easy review of the OID, preventing the need to click into and open the object itself, which often takes a long time depending on the size of the backing table. When reviewing model performance this has been an important activity...
9 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Custom dashboard with more customization abilities

A customer is Hong Kong built their own custom dashboard on Instana. They request for the ability to edit the custom Dashboard's font size, bold, underline, color etc to facilitate their needs.
9 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

incident page does show assigned runbooks but it is not easy to access the runbook execution results

The incident page does show assigned runbooks and you can easily start such a runbook by clicking the offered "Run" button. But if the runbook has already been executed (especially when triggered automatically) there is not easy to access to the r...
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metric display

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metrics such as Dropwizard metrics
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Add Oracle Database Driver Support (oracledb / ocdb) in Instana Synthetic Tests

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests only support drivers such as mssql and mongodb, which limits the ability to directly test environments running on Oracle Database. Adding support for the official oracledb (and optionally ocdb) Node.js drivers wo...
25 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0