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Apptio Costing:::Guided application workflow for making new metric reportable

When learning and teaching others TBM Studio, one of the challenges is all of the manual steps required to do something that is simple in every other BI tool: Make a column of numeric values in a dataset reportable. To do this today you must: Crea...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
29 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Preserve Deep Link Destination After SSO Login

Currently, when a user opens a direct link to a specific entity, action, group, or any other resource in Turbonomic, the system redirects them to the SSO login page if they are not already authenticated. However, after successful login, the user i...

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Default AIOPS Alert contextual menu

We woule like to be able to disable, suppress, change, or restrict the default AIOPS alert contextual menu. We need to remove the ability for operators to perform many default actions. The only possibility we have found is to restrict them for all...
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add a “Contains” operator for the Namespace dimension in Container Reporting to enable flexible partial matching similar to the Cluster dimension.

Currently, within Container Reporting, when filtering by the Namespace dimension, only the “Equals To” operator is available. Unlike the Cluster dimension, which supports the “Contains” operator, this limitation restricts flexibility in filtering ...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted