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Have ability to enter a hypothetical Savings Plan purchase amount and terms and return estimated savings and coverage metrics

Problem:Right now the Optimize → Commitment Recs → AWS → Compute Savings Plan recommendation tooling only provides recommendations to achieve maximum savings coverage for current workloads. However, some organizations have a lower risk tolerance a...

Ability to share a link to a report that automatically applies global filters, date selections and tab selection

Problem:Right now if a colleague asks me a question that can be answered by an Apptio BI report with certain filters applied and looking at a specific tab, I need to:Sh Share the link to the report itself Tell them what tab to go to within the rep...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Functionality to integrate with MAS (Maximo Application Suite) for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc

Raised on behalf of Telecom Egypt: "What we need is to have a functionality to integrate with MAS for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc. I took an example of what is already implemented in AIOPS which is “ServiceNow”, this is...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Planned for future release

Filtering on tickets within ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps

When defining a ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps, in the connection form it's possible to select the ticket type (incident, change request, ...), but it's not possible to further filter the ticket of same type (for example based on specific fiel...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Filters in Cloudability financial planning

When building a plan in Cloudability Financial Planning, we want the ability to include or exclude specific elements—such as credits, marketplace charges, taxes, and others—just like we can currently do in Apptio BI Finance is building the budgets...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration