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Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Updating monthly amounts in the Forecast

When you hit the pencil to edit a forecast and then type your information into the month you want to change, the total doesnt change until after you close out. Can it instead update immediately so that you can see your new total. This is especiall...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Quarterly forecasts should not auto calculate unless you physically put a new number in that field

If you put different dollar amounts in Jul, Aug and Sep but then accidentally click in the Q3 cell, it automatically totals those three months and then peanut butter spreads the average erasing your custom amounts! This function should only work i...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Kanban View States: ability to customize grouping of states

It would be helpful to have the ability to customize how states are displayed as columns in the Kanban view. Right now, the system automatically groups them based on process workflows. We would like the flexibility to categorize states or map them...

Add Entity and Action UUIDs as an available column in the Search and Actions tables

The process for getting to this information easily for 50+ or even 1000+ items when utilizing the APIs to do metadata tagging is very cumbersome and requires multiple navigation clicks to move from one item to another. Making this an available cus...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Add AI-specific Benchmarking Categories to Apptio Benchmarking Summary View

Request to add AI-specific benchmarking categories aligned with TBM v5 to Apptio, enabling organizations to compare AI-related costs against industry standards for better financial planning and transparency through the Benchmarking Summary view.
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Submitted

We are looking for a solution to identify Turbonomic parking failures. If any VM that is part of the scheduler fails to start or stop at the scheduled time, we want to capture and review the log of that failure event.

We are looking for a solution to identify Turbonomic parking failures. If any VM that is part of the scheduler fails to start or stop at the scheduled time, we want to capture and review the log of that failure event. Please add a mechanism that h...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1 Submitted

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
26 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Notification of when Calculations are complete in IBM Apptio TBM Studio

If there was some type of automated notification of when the calculations completed in IBM Apptio - TBM Studio, it would help everyone! This would help us to know exactly when we can push to production and get that information out to our customers...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted