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Admin ability to maintain discount rates when CSP does not provide them directly.

Currently when new contracts are signed, rates need to be updated by Apptio team. Customers would like to be able to maintain this information directly without needing to involve support teams. Customers both an UI and API update / maintenance fun...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add "shared with" column to the Apptio BI report list

Like the Native Cloudability Dashboard list, can we see the "shared with" information into the Apptio BI report list? It will helps to quickly identify which dashboard is shared to the Entire Organization
11 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Support K8s label based views in Rightsizing.

Being able to provide users with access to only the information relevant to them is important to customers. Customers would like to be able to use K8s label based views to filter to only specific labels in containers. This would filter the list to...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Ability to use email subscriptions with Row Level security

We have a need to be able to export a report into PDF by Business Unit and email that PDF to the Business Unit owner for our Bill of IT. We have a list of emails by Business Unit and have created a report that is the exact format needed. As we hav...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Ability to export list of datalink connectors

I would like the ability to export the full list of datalink connectors and the relevant summary data related to the datalink connectors. This would be helpful in making a list of datalink connectors that might need to be reviewed for different pu...
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted