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Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Hiding a project in TBM Studio and keeping it's dataset visible in Apptio BI

Users should be able to hide a TBM Studio project from people with RBI-PowerUser role, making it only visible to people with specific role, while keeping the dataset published to ApptioBI visible. Currently it's difficult to work with the publishe...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 4

Provide the ability to restrict user groups to a single specific view

This will ensure particular set of users will only be able to view the data they own / are authorized to view. Right now, since this feature is unavailable, users are able to see other views also
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 4 Under review

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

Currently, I want to monitor Minio (Object Storage Tool) with Instana in order to have first-hand status information. At this time I have not found any relevant information regarding Instana and Minio for monitoring.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Support for databricks on AWS EKS

Databricks monitoring is supported in Azure and we need support for this on AWS EKS.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted