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Undo Feature

Adding undo step functionality would be super helpful!
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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

Details around a versioned table in the pipeline step

As a user I would like to be able to identify where a version in a table has happened and when. We would like to include it in the pipeline step shown in the image below, therefore, it is obvious there is a version and the document does not have t...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

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

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 Future consideration

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 Future consideration