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flow de-duplication within DI

Flow duplication is a big issue when reporting and the same flow records are sent from different flow exporters (routers that the traffic transits). It's not easy to define groups or select specific devices for reporting, particularly when there a...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Commitment Recommendations Support for Azure Databricks Pre-Purchase Plan

A reservation covers only the DBU usage. Other charges, such as compute, storage, and networking, are applied separately. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional res...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing Widget: Increase Data Window from 10 to 30 Days

Currently, the Rightsizing widget displays data for only the past 10 days, but based on suggestion from ticket TS019147686, we propose extending this to a 30-day range.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
12 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Export data from Custom Dashboards

We are using Custom Dashboards to track and improve our metrics, thanks to custom metrics. But because of 7 days retention, it is not possible to track with historical data. The only way we can manage to find is to semi automate the process with t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Properly version tables and reports etc

There is no way to find the configuration of previous versions of tables / reports (and other items that have configuration that can be changed) Also I cannot find what has changed between different check-ins. I could not revert to a previous chec...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Target file import possibility

Please add functionality that allows the import of the Targets file. In other parts of Apptio planning, such as 'Reference Data', we have similar functionality; for example, we can import 'Labor Rates' (screenshot attached).”
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Change DrillDown form title description for "Blank" value choosing

On CT report, drilldown form title looks strange in case choosing "(Blank)" value. Appreciate change this title description.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration