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Display Error Details in Datalink History for Failures Caused by Deactivated ULS Service Account

For reference, we have observed that in some other scenarios (such as token expiration), error messages are displayed in the Details section as expected. In contrast, when the failure is caused by a deactivated ULS service account, no error messag...
1 day ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Provide a comprehensive and correct sensor version/release/tag list for a static agent package

Hi, While debugging some .NET tracing issue a constant source of confusion and irritation was/is the versioning and tagging system. Each part of the agent has at least one independent version or release number which is not listed in a comprehensiv...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Policies:  the ability to restrict Temporal/Seasonal policies based on Alert Restriction Filters, and restrict policies from Metric Anomalies based on Metric Restriction Filters.

Policies: the ability to restrict Temporal/Seasonal policies based on Alert Restriction Filters, and restrict policies from Metric Anomalies based on Metric Restriction Filters.
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

The ability to assign a permission to allow users to see Metrics.

The ability to assign a permission to allow users to see Metrics - if not enabled they don't see Metric right-hand side drop down for Alerts, and they don't see Metric Search.
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Expand Scheduled Delivery to other formats like CSV and JSON

NMS' reporting already allows for them to be emailed in different, machine-readable formats. DI should be able to do so too for feature parity.
about 13 hours ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Integration of Commitment Recommendation Metrics into Reporting

There is currently a critical data gap in the Reporting modules. While the UI provides a "Commitment Recommendation" tab, these specific metrics are not available as selectable metrics or dimensions within the report builder.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Source-Aware Ticketing for Cloud Optimization (Rightsizing Ticketing)

Currently, we have two ways to create Rightsizing tickets: Manually or via Automated Policy. However, both methods have a major "information gap" when they reach ServiceNow: Manual Tickets: ServiceNow doesn’t show who clicked the button to create ...

Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
13 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
12 days ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information