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Target file import possibility

Please add functionality that allows the import of the Targets file. In other parts of Apptio planning, such as 'Reference Data', we have similar functionality; for example, we can import 'Labor Rates' (screenshot attached).”
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Connectivity into Apptio via AWS

Hi I know Apptio is standalone application, and it could be possibly hosted anywhere. Now it's hosted on AWS. I work in large organization, and we are also using AWS, which is trusted partner for us. It makes it much easier from data governanc...
9 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Use "Alias" naming convention to replace "Account Name" for AWS data

For AWS data, use Alias feature to display account name. Customer would like to leverage this Apptio. Is there a way for Apptio to leverage the “alias” name instead of the actual Account name. The AWS portals display the “alias” name itself.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Reporting that shows the financial impact of Changes at Towers, Services Business Units

As an Apptio Developer I would like to be able to see the impact of my changes in a report BEFORE I check in, against the cost metric at Resource Towers, Business Services and Business Unit allocation. Then I know that the changes I am making are ...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Ability for customer to disable prod for end users

In TBM studio we would like to see a button available to the admin role to disable production from end users and have a message display "Maintenance/Outage" something like that. The use case is in the scenario where we accidentally promoted incorr...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
about 1 month ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Enabling Traceability on Azure Key Vault

The information provided today by Instana is not enough to determine when a problem occurs at the transaction level in Azure Key Vault, the information regarding performance and configuration metrics could be complemented by reviewing in depth the...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted