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Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

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

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...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1

Need more than 2 Decimals

Pulling report for Executives and the Rate dimension reflects zero cost, but the Usage Quantity and Cost Total reflect and expense. Quantity *0 = 0, but there is expense, so the Rate dimension is not reflecting correctly.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Month Picker while Importing reference data from Costing to Planning

We are using Costing integration due to some features we need missing in ADM. While importing reference data via Costing Integration, we would like the option of having month selection as an option to bring in Ref data from Costing into Planning
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow for Azure Memor Metrics collection via Azure Monitor Logs

Microsoft will be depreciation Memory collection via the Azure Diagnostics extension. This will require the use of a monitor agent and Azure Monitor. Customer already has memory collection using Azure Monitor Logs. Since this isnt current supporte...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Allow for a Scheduled Build Execution in Apptio Studio (Dev Environment)

Introduce a Build Scheduler in Apptio Studio’s Dev environment that allows users to set and manage build schedules.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Needs more information