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Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration

Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Time Zone should show UTC with Parking schedule

In PMC we have detailed time Zone, Example:Asia/Kolkata(+5:30). In Turbonomic, we have only the Time zone(Asia/Kolkata) i.e. no correspnding UTC+ time is shown. Can the time zone set in Turbonomic match the configuration option shown in PMC where ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

SAIOM - make it possible to authenticate on port 443 to eliminate non-secure connections

This will eliminate vulnerabilities related to non-secure connections on port 21 to the OSA-ICCs on System Z. If this cannot be remediated, we are forced to discontinue use of the product.
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Submitted

Discover devices with DHCP configuration

Hi Team, Devices with DHCP configurations pose challenges for availability monitoring due to their dynamic IP addresses. Without a mechanism to track these devices effectively, UFM may lose visibility or fail to maintain consistent monitoring when...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Needs more information

Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
3 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to import 'external financials' for "Labour" and "Assets" tabs in the "Planned" section, just like "Other" tab

We complete a large amount of centralised loads of data for forecasting purposes into "Other" tab, and it allows for greater transparency and control of data quality as these lines are locked for editing by a user. Unfortunately, the same function...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration