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Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
17 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add support of markdown or HTLM syntax in the Apptio BI text box widget

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add hyperlinks, color by creating the message in other tool then past in the text box an...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Can we get pod level (or) workload level cost details in reports just like we get these details from the container insights section ?

Hi Team, In container Insights section, we get data as per cluster, namespace, workload, and pod level if we drill down. But in CLDY reports section, we can only use namespace to filter, do we have functionality where we can get workload or pod le...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages. Currently we can only delete either all data (with the button) or selected rows using a check box on the current page.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Under review

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / User Management & Login 1 Future consideration

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review