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Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Add a column on the "List of Virtual Macines" view to show the hostname of the host where each VM is running on

This is particular important for on-premise environment where we need to see the VM-to-Host mapping (true for both VMWare and Power VM)
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Custom quick filters for visual reports also to apply to PNG export

The export could be used e.g., in presentations while now when all data for all items is shown the visual is often too loaded.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Future consideration

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics.  To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of tre...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Support Migrate to cloud plan for VMs from On Prem to GCP

As a CloudOps engineer, I wanted to run "Migrate to Cloud Plan" for non GCP Virtual machines (includes On Premises, AWS, Azure) to GCP (Destination), So that I can obtain the comparative recommendations to review and execute the migration on best ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Generate a file output without a header row on the csv file

This would be useful for our automation of our chargeback process. This automation runs from Cloudability through SFTP to our Nationwide Finance system and the system can not accept a file with a header row.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Flutter Multiple Backend Configuration

Currently, Instana flutter agent (and mobile app in general) only support sending monitoring data to a single backend. For customer with high availability active-active setup, sending data to 1 backend will definitely impact the data availability....
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration