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Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
11 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Logo Admin Enhancement Request

Add ability for Apptio Admins to view logos loaded for clients within AWS and be able to load or remove logos as needed vs having to submit a support ticket. Slack: https://apptio.slack.com/archives/C0H96R4AV/p1701989912244109?thread_ts=1701989152...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add full MFA support to SevOne

Currently SevOne support SSO for authentication however users are able to still login with SevOne user logins which prevents SSO being used for enforced MFA. Adding the ability to disable SevOne user logins or another mechanism for enforcing MFA o...
9 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 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

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Use data from AWS CUR normalized_usage_amount available as Normalized Usage Hours

Using the same normalized usage amount as the CUR provides will allow customers to understand how the flexible RIs are allocated. These kinds of RIs can fluctuate between instances and information on usage amounts will help in understanding why th...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Not under consideration