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Rightsizing recommendation support for Elastisearch

I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS service like Elastisearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive greater effic...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Possible filters in History tab

With automation rules and metrics putting a lot of records in history, it’s very difficult to find who changed a field in the past. I think it would be perfect if we had the possibility to have a dropdown where you select a “field” which you want ...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 8 Future consideration

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

DI 7.1+ should allow for a super admin user to hide or change permissions on OOTB reports for tenants

In DI 7.0 and below, OOTB reports could be deleted. Some DI administrators would do this to tidy up the landing page and Reports form for tenants, so that they'd only have to view relevant reports. This was previously accomplished by using a check...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Create a new cost transparency integration for sending the event log/change history from ITP to CT

Our user activity in IT Planning is currently hard to track and the export is hard to understand without additional formatting. With an integration into Cost Transparency, it would be easier to reformat the event log/change history data in CT in c...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

filter by Account Name/ID

In the Rightsizing section, if it can add filters by Account Name or Account ID dimensions, it will be much handy for use to manage the rightsizing distribution.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Support for Temenos

We would like to request support for monitoring the Temenos Transact (T24) core banking platform within Instana. The customer is running Temenos Transact (T24) using a combination of: TAFC (Temenos Application Framework for C), and Java components...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

3+ Object Reporting

Currently reporting is limited to only 2 objects in one report but there is an increasing ask for multiple object reporting for CIO/CFO detailed reporting. The ask is to increase the number of objects to 3 at the least to enable more granular vie...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration