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Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
26 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 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...
14 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...
14 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
14 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.
24 days 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...
26 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 ...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

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.
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Associate synthetic tests to websites and mobile apps using the Terraform provider

Synthetic tests can be associated with applications, websites and mobile apps using the UI, but the terraform provider only supports the association with applications. We would like a way to get the association done for synthetic tests as well wit...
27 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
27 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted