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Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Not under consideration

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add support of markdown or HTLM syntax in the Apptio BI text box widget

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add hyperlinks, color by creating the message in other tool then past in the text box an...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Can we get pod level (or) workload level cost details in reports just like we get these details from the container insights section ?

Hi Team, In container Insights section, we get data as per cluster, namespace, workload, and pod level if we drill down. But in CLDY reports section, we can only use namespace to filter, do we have functionality where we can get workload or pod le...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Needs more information

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

Visual Indicator for Versioned Tables

The process for identifying versioned tables today requires a check-out. Adding a visual indicator to quickly identify a versioned table would eliminate an unnecessarily check-out thus saving time/effort.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 2 Under review

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