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Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Single Unique Identifier Column

Currently plans contain unique identifier information in two fields when on the summary page. UID for Other Expenses are tracked in the "Line Item Code" field while Contracts UID is tracked on the "Source Line Item Code" field. Please provide the ...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

List View Visual Encoding for Cells

We want to use the visual encoding feature for some lists. But we don't want to colorize the complete row; we only want a cell in a particular color.Example:Instead ofWe would like
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Remove 'Utilisation Data' radio button for non-AWS customers

A number of our consumers use Cloudability as a central source of data but are left dispondant becuase they try to use the 'Utilisation Data' radio button under metrics and dimensions. As we are an Azure consumer and the Utilisation Data is only a...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Include / Exclude option for Cloud Service Provider(s)

Whilst I appreciate that Cloudability is a Multi-cloud SaaS service, it would be really nice if the customer could toggle the various CSP's off or on as a configuration setting. If a customer is only using a single CSP, it would be beneficial to t...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to create stacked graphs in CLDY.

Example to limit results to x number and dynamically group the remaining spend into an "Other" dimension. Functionality was previous released for Apptio BI but we do not intend to adopt Apptio BI so would like this functionality in Cloudability re...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration