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Apptio Costing:::Calculation frequency set within transform pipeline

Increasingly with the ingestion of Cloud cost data and other operational data sources to Studio, customers may have certain data they want calculated daily or weekly, and other data that is only refreshed or needs to be calculated monthly. This id...
6 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio:::All notification and subscription features should support slack

We currently do not natively support slack notifications, and users of Apptio products that are heavy slack users are required to manually configure slack notifications using API's and webhooks. This idea suggestion is to integrate Apptio's notifi...
6 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Improved notification and workflow attached to anomaly detection feature

The current anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio identifies row count changes, but does not have workflow built in to ensure closed loop resolution. This ideas suggestion is to create two options: 1) lightweight workflow built into Studio where...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Data Quality Evaluations tied to detailed use cases from the Value Framework

A challenge when implementing Apptio Costing is knowing whether or not the data attributes you have available from your company's systems are sufficient to accomplish your goals in Apptio. It would be helpful to have a data quality assessment buil...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
5 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Q Replication Monitoring Support in Instana

Recently, I have been researching and testing Q Replication (QREP). My understanding is that Instana currently does not provide direct support for QREP. However, I believe it would be very helpful if information about the internal state of Q Captu...
5 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Rightsizing for Redshift Serverless

Hi, Currently, it seems Redshift rightsizing recommendation doesn't applicable on Redshift Serverless instances, as I don't see any listed within in our env. Is there any plan to enhance/expand the rightsizing recommendation to Redshift Serverless?
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted