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Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

A new line formatting on the "Define email body" section feature of the Email Subscription

Untruncated text in the Email Body field of Email Subscription "Define Email body" option is essential to deliver a comprehensive message ensuring the recipients receive the message as intended by the IT Finance team. This is to guarantee that cri...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Log who triggered an integration sync

In Settings > Integrations > CSV export / import > "View messages log", it is possible to review logs for data imports and exports. One of the events that are logged is "Export run was triggered by USER". It would be a good improvement to...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Submitted

Ability to Reassign Ownership of Dashboards and Reports

It would be helpful to have a reassign ownership option, similar to Apptio BI, so that when someone leaves the org, they can just change the ownership of their reports. Unless I'm mistaken, the method now for dashboards would be to duplicate a das...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Ability to make placement decisions for heavy GPU workloads

Workload planning - is it able to do placement decisions for many GPU heavy instances? Current limit is 16 GPUs. Use Case: they have a cluster that has 200 H100s. We want to see best path to place to put this would be AWS in Region starting in X s...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Not under consideration

Default currency setting per user

As a user I would like to choose my default currency instead of just having a certain administrator set a default value for the entire organization so that I can see my costs in my currency in all Cloudability modules, not just in Apptio Bi.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Future consideration

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Under review

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