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Ability to share URL to a utilization report without sharing report

We would like to be able to navigate to a URL that would reproduce a utilization report using the same dimensions without having to share the report. This could open in an edit mode for the new user to save the report. This functionality works for...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Track status of provisioned Clusters

Knowing which clusters have been provisioned and their status (active, inactive, no data received) would help in determining how many clusters are not currently capturing data. Currently, only clusters that have sent information are available. Cus...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a permission to remove the 'Delete' option in Editable and normal tables for Power users

This will help prevent data changes/deletion by our power users. Currently Power users have permissions to add/remove the 'Update' and 'download' data options in Access Administration settings but the 'Delete' permissions option is not created Acc...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Support a broader range of Cloudwatch GPU metric configurations for bringing to Cloudability

Customers use their collected Cloudwatch metrics for their own purposes in addition to making them available to Cloudability. It's useful to collect individual GPU metrics for each instance so that they can see if there are any idle GPUs (rather t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Monitor the SAML attempts and notify on specific failures

Case: TS020088958 In reference to identity provider (IdP), in reference to single-sign-on SAML failures, such as sign-in-request failed, took too long, received an error message, each of these events should be in an audit log. Software Self Hav...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Allow rotation of all api tokens (access and service) using the api

Please allow rotation of all targetprocess api tokens (both v1 and v2 apis) directly using an API. This would allow us to rotate these automatically without having to change passwords or log into the UI. If api authentication is planning on being ...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

How can we make it easier for MSPs like BT to roll out updates at scale for 7.2 and 8.x environments?

Large MSPs like BT manage environments with 30+ clusters. Even with a ~30-minute upgrade time per cluster, the cumulative effort, scheduling, and risk of downtime make frequent updates challenging. Simplifying the rollout process (e.g., automation...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Needs more information