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Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete files from Datadrop directly

At the moment we are unable to directly delete files from our DataDrop viewer and need to raise a support ticket. It would be great if this was an option for us to self-serve. Background of our issue: many files get copied into DataDrop each day...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section

This is a request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section: 1. Indefinite Budget Duration: Currently, the maximum budget duration is 18 months. We request an option to set budgets for an indefinite period, similar to AWS Bu...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

In the NMS interface display tables consistently and make number of items on a page fit the page.

The system has many different ways to display tables on the screen. Ideally figure out how many rows fit on the current page and then page through them.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to toggle the X/Y axis date/time for heatmaps

Hi there...I have a customer that would like the ability to swap the X/Y axis for Heatmap widgets. Right now, the date is on the Y axis and the aggregation period is on the X axis. In other products' heatmaps (as the customer is transitioning from...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Schedule Plan Baseline Push to ITP

Clients need to update plan baseline data like labor regularly with no manual steps. Please add the ability to map an entity to ITP and select a plan to push into so ADM knows which plan to push the baseline data into. Then add the ability to sche...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

Widget conditional display options

Provide the ability to only show a widget if a condition is met. Similar to report linking provide rules for the widget in order for it to be shown such as Device or Object metadata, or even the presence of data. It is common to have multiple tabs...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Force delete option for linked reports

You can't delete a report / template if linked somewhere and time consuming to try locate where it is linked. Would be nice to have a "force delete option". Sometimes linked report can occur in multiple places and we just want to remove the linked...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Cannot clone whole folders of views

We cannot clone whole folders of views. The cloning feature only allows you to copy individual views, not nested folders or dashboards with their widgets. The cloning feature doesn't support duplicating entire folders or dashboards with all their ...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration