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ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Please make time based configuration timezone based

in e.g. SLO with daily interval when change to dst and back two times a year the timebucket is not in-line with the time the user see in the ui which is leading eg to daily SLO which was created 24h starting 12 am is after change to dst now starti...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

Export csv files in both US and non-US locale

If we are exporting data using a csv, the default number decimal separator is "." However in for instance Europe and South America we use the comma "," as a decimal separator. This means if we export a csv the comma needs to replaced by another se...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Add %ifInErrors, %ifOutErrors, %ifInDiscards, %ifOutDiscards as standard indicators for interfaces

These are industry standard metrics and should have been added years ago. All customers benefit since individual packet error/discard counts don't provide much context into the seriousness of the issue (e.g. 5 errors out of how many packets?) vs i...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Add ITNM discovery capability for the Nokia CORE network topology

Though we have some (if not all) Nokia core network elements collected from the NetAct collector, we don't have the Core network topology. We understand we need to gather the topology information from multiple sources and stitch up the Core networ...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release