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Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Appti BI.

Customer wants Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Apptio BI. As of now we were supporting a few products of AWS but not AZURE and GCP.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Functionality already exists

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

Allow encryption key to be supported in DI

During a DI integration with identity provider (IDP). Notice if the encryption key is enabled at IDP, DI will not be able to authenticate the user. If disable encryption, user can be authenticated. Passing Token without encryption is a security lo...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

For security reasons it should be possible to block the use of Service and/or Access tokens

As tokens can be used by another user to access Targetprocess with the access & permission profile of the user to which the token belongs, this poses a serious security risk. The request is to foresee a possibility to block the use of Service ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other / User Management 0 Under review

Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Color-coded highlighting based on ticket status

Description: Currently, Instana alert emails display ticket/event details in plain formatting. For better readability, we request support for color-coded highlighting based on ticket status. Request: Open Tickets → Title should be displayed in Red...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review

Event ID in the subject line

Description: At present, Instana alert emails display the Event ID (currently alphanumeric) only in the email body. For operational efficiency, we need the Event ID to also appear in the email subject line. Current Behavior: Event ID is alphanumer...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review

enable future date selection in the time range filter

One of my clients is using the Cloudability dashboard and would like to select a custom time range that aligns with their fiscal year — specifically from February 2025 to February 2026. However, when attempting to select this range, the calendar d...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration