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Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Filter - show options based on current filter

When we filter a report based on multiple filters, if we select a Line of Business and then want to filter on a Business Unit, it would be good to see under Business Units only the BUs included in the LOB selected
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

an option to send PDF export for Dashboards by email and a schedule this email

adding an option to Instana to export the dashboards and send it by email to non-Instana users. this will be helpful to share dashboards with managers, stakeholders and non technical team. also adding the option to schedule this report to send a m...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

Add variable table at the folder level

Allow the ability to add a variable table at the folder level. We have variables defined for workstations, but those workstations support multiple functional areas, and most functional areas will override at least one default from the workstation....
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Limit Exposure of Business Mappings

Some Business Mapping steps are intermediary and are used to create data subsets that are included or excluded in other final business mappings to help with logic challenges or re-usabiity (include vs anti). These intermediary Business Mappings id...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Off button for log entry

Customers want to have control to stop log intake in case they are approaching the maximum log intake purchased. To date, there is no mechanism to stop logs from being sent to Instana.
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

AWS lambda action plug-in

Allow Workload Automation to trigger an AWS Lambda action as a result of an event - rather than AWS Lambda type job, which is currently available in the product.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review