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Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Provide Ability to Control or Eliminate Product Update Pop-Ups

Not all users use the functionality that the popup refers to causing confusing. Privacy concerns around surveys or pop-ups requesting a response drive the desire to control who and when these pop-ups appears. Would like the ability to control whic...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Plan years from 6 years to 10 years

Hello.I have an request.Is it possible to expand 6 years to 10 years of 1 plan of IT Planning?Because our IT division is required to submit 10 years plan to corporate strategy division.Current ITP's 6 years have a problem to make 10 years pla...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Proactive Support for Long Running Threads

Hi Guys, I raised this ticket last night and as part of the investigation the team identified long running threads that they performed maintenance on, we noticed a very sharp increase in Dev Environment responsiveness and performance. It’s been an...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Under review

For security reasons it should be possible to block the use of Service and/or Access tokens

As tokens can be used by another user to access Targetprocess with the access & permission profile of the user to which the token belongs, this poses a serious security risk. The request is to foresee a possibility to block the use of Service ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other / User Management 0 Under review

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Support Webex Teams for AIOPS ChatOps

ChatOps would introduce a new way to collaborate that is one of the most important modernizations expected for this customer Operation
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration