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Feature Enhancement Request: VM Extension-Based Filtering, Search, and Grouping

Benefits Operational Efficiency: Quickly identify and remediate VMs with missing or failed extensions. Compliance & Monitoring: Ensure all VMs meet required extension configurations. Automation Support: Enable scripting and automation based on...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Monika Sharma

Unable to get the thread count from the nci back up server whereas can track the same for primary nci server.
10 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
10 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
11 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Use fuzzy match on tags and label names for assigning to dimensions

Sometimes similar tags or labels are created that follow a pattern, it would be useful to be able to use fuzzy logic in finding matching tags and labels. For instance "clustername" it could be within "karpenter.sh/discovery/ClusterName" or aws:Clu...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Admin ability to maintain discount rates when CSP does not provide them directly.

Currently when new contracts are signed, rates need to be updated by Apptio team. Customers would like to be able to maintain this information directly without needing to involve support teams. Customers both an UI and API update / maintenance fun...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add "shared with" column to the Apptio BI report list

Like the Native Cloudability Dashboard list, can we see the "shared with" information into the Apptio BI report list? It will helps to quickly identify which dashboard is shared to the Entire Organization
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Report memory used in AWS RDS to reports and dashboards

Seeing the amount of used memory alongside CPU would help customers make an informed decision around rightsizing and other utilization / consumption metrics as to how best optimize their workloads.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted