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Ability for report owner to set a default value for a global filter (and reset to no default configured)

Problem:Right now there is no way to set a default selection for an Apptio BI report global filter. There are many cases where being able to choose a default selected value meets the use cases of the majority of the report users, but we still want...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to clear an individual global filter and reset to zero selections

Problem:Right now there is only the ability to clear all global filters at once. If you only want to rest and clear a single global filter but leave the rest as-is, you need to go into in and uncheck all of the boxes one by one for the filter you ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add "Week" to Date Range View By date granularity options

Problem: Currently the dat granularity grouping options when configuring an Apptio BI visualization are none, day, month, quarter, half year, year. Workload can often have weekday vs weekend cyclical patterns and that regular variance can make it ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

GCP Workflow Plugin: Enable Custom Project ID for Execution

We request the implementation of a new feature in the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) that allows users to explicitly specify a Google Cloud Project ID for workflow execution. Currently, it appears that ...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

GCP Workflow Plugin: Allow Specifying Different Billing/Quota Project

Currently, the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) appears to limit workflow execution to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project associated with the Service Account specified in the IWS connection definitio...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Device Groups in the Metadata widget: If the source group has child groups, have an option to list only the child groups. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the device groups within the selected Parent.

It would allow the widget to display device groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Instana Auto Incident Closure

The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Monitoring Multiple Vcenters using single instana agent VM

Dear IBM, I am facing issue to monitor 5 Vcenters of my client with single instana agent, Vcenters Credentials i added in the configuration.yaml file but every time it takes last Vcenter to Instana UI. I used different approaches in the yaml as we...
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Ability for report viewers to select alternate date granularity, similar to how they can select an alternate dimension or metric to display

Problem:Right now in Apptio BI the date range granularity (group by none, day, month, etc.) can only be configured in a visual's edit UI. Once set it can not be changed by a user who only has view access to the report the visual is in. This means ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted