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Add Search, Type, and Status Filtering to the Integrations Page in Targetprocess

As a Targetprocess Administrator, managing a large number of Import and Export integration profiles is currently difficult and time-consuming. Because the Integrations page lacks filtering or search capabilities, administrators have to manually sc...
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Submitted

Add Default Plan to API call

You have added the "Default" plan to the UI for Planning. As our users are using the API to call data from Apptio, we would like to have a way to see what the "Default" plan is when we call the API and have it readily available and easy to know wh...
about 10 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

When exporting snoozed rightsizing recommendations have the expiry date in the .csv and snooze flag

For organisations that take regular extracts for FinOps reporting, this makes it difficult to track when deferred recommendations will become actionable again. Adding the expiration date would enable better historical tracking, proactive review of...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Enable Project-Level Identification and Filtering for GCP Resources in SLOs

Hello team,We need to improve the availability of project-level information for GCP resources in Instana to enable accurate SLO creation and filtering. The customer works with a large GCP environment and organize their resources and billing by pro...
5 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Enable Account-Level and Resource Group Identification and Filtering for IBM Cloud Resources in SLOs

We need to improve the availability of account-level and resource group information for IBM Cloud resources in Instana to enable accurate SLO creation and filtering. The customer has a large IBM Cloud environment and needs to create individual SLO...
5 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

add support for MySQL Group Replication monitoring

Need to support mysql group monitoring by adding (for example) metrics like performance_schema.replication_group_members, replication_group_member_stats and so on. To this day, only source-replica metrics seem to be supported
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for OTEL RUM support

Support for OpenTelemetry RUM (Real User Monitoring)We do need solutions for monitoring real user experiences (RUM) using open standards. Naitive platform's capabilities. Requesting a roadmap regarding native support for OpenTelemetry (OTel) on th...
10 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Default Alert Topology View to Lowest Associated Resource Instead of Chassis

The topology association for alerts is correct; however, selecting the topology icon currently opens the topology view at the chassis level by default, even when the alert is associated with a lower-level resource such as an interface or port. To ...
about 11 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

leaderboard/ranking view on the Optimization Dashboard

The FinOps team is exploring ways to improve user engagement and motivate users to take optimization actions. One of their requests is to add a leaderboard/ranking view to the Optimization Dashboard, leveraging the assigned user information and sa...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted