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Add notification option for when Datadrop server receives files

The customer would like to be able to configure notifications for when their Apptio Datadrop SFTP Server receives file uploads so that they can run processes ad hoc and when those notifications are received. They dont always know when a file will ...
about 22 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
17 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Maintain JVM Metric Continuity Across Process Restarts

Description / Problem Statement When a monitored JVM restarts, Instana treats the new JVM instance as a separate entity. As a result, users analyzing a JVM over a historical time range may only see metrics belonging to the currently selected JVM i...
3 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Support Object-Type Attributes in Instana JMX Custom Metrics

Hello, Currently, Instana JMX Custom Metrics support only numeric and string values. I would like to request an enhancement to support object-type values as well. Many enterprises in Korea still rely heavily on local application server solutions. ...
7 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

OpenStack support for Turbo backend

Due to the steep price increase, many customers are abandoning VMware, and one of the few existing alternatives is OpenStack.One of them is Telefónica, which is already implementing its global "ZeroVMware" project.As of today, it is not possible t...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Enhance Automation Hub Google Cloud Run Plugin to Support Execution Overrides via run.jobs.runWithOverrides

Business Need As enterprise customers adopt Google Cloud Run Jobs for scheduled batch processing, they need both least-privilege access and dynamic workload execution. In strict enterprise GCP environments, workload orchestration service accounts ...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Improve visibility of incomplete cost history used in Turbonomic savings calculations

Turbonomic can display valid optimization recommendations even when only a limited amount of billing history is available for a resource. In these cases, the associated monthly cost and estimated savings can appear significantly understated, with ...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Using the new AI bot to produce automated summary that can be added to an entity.

Jira has a feature that automatically summarizes the request and related comments, displaying the summary at the top of the Activity section. ATP should offer similar functionality by leveraging its AI capabilities. See the Jira screenshot as an e...
8 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Submitted

Allow custom zone names for cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and Azure sensor in the Infrastructure Map

Cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and the Azure sensor are grouped in the Infrastructure Map by region/location (e.g. us-east-1a, eastus2), and there is no way to rename these zones or assign a custom one. For hosts with an agent this is ...
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Request to add MPIO Status Monitoring and Alerting Support in IBM Instana

We would like to request an enhancement in IBM Instana to provide native monitoring of MPIO (Multipath I/O) status across supported operating systems. MPIO is a critical component in enterprise environments that ensures storage redundancy and high...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted