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Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Add support of markdown or HTLM syntax in the Apptio BI text box widget

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add hyperlinks, color by creating the message in other tool then past in the text box an...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

KPI widget for Rightsizing is only 10 days, would like it to be 30, 90 and use effective savings as well, toggle for widget configuration

Ask -**Default Period**: - The default period for analysis is currently set to **10 days**. - We aim to extend this default period to **30 days**. **Additional Lookback**: - However, we also need to consider a **90-day lookback**. - Some of our gr...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

RightSizing ROI screen should retain filters when you change data view

I am looking at the RightSizing ROI screens. I need to quickly flip between data views, whilst retaining the filter(s) that I have applied, to show different colleagues the effects that their changes have achieved.Every time I change the data view...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Re-order pages

Introduce the possibility to re-order the pages in an ApptioBI report. When you create the report and the pages, maybe you don't have a clear vision of how many pages will you finally create and which order makes sense. Also for existing reports y...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4 Future consideration

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration