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Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
3 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

We have requirement to monitor windows OS 2025

It helps customer business by making OS up to market standards in terms of new features and also increase company business Our Customer is Sandvik We need your help by providing with latest fixpack or ServicePack for ITM which supports windows OS ...
8 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Add AI-specific Benchmarking Categories to Apptio Benchmarking Summary View

Request to add AI-specific benchmarking categories aligned with TBM v5 to Apptio, enabling organizations to compare AI-related costs against industry standards for better financial planning and transparency through the Benchmarking Summary view.
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Submitted

Provide capability for Managing Server Trap to monitor specific Thread pools.

Currently the Managing Server (prod: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Diagnostics) has a capability to define an Alert to monitor Thread pools in a Trap definition. Current design is that it will monitor all thread pools, and there's no function t...
21 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

ITM TEP Desktop Client - Add User Session Timeout Options

Adding user session timeout options would allow system administrators to better tailor the TEP client for their organizations access/security standards. Some possible timeout options: Idle timeout (minutes): Specify the number of minutes a user's ...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
9 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Functionality already exists

to add attachment option in email alerting using EWS probe

to enable the email alerting with the attachment. Currently in our environment we are monitoring email alerting with EWS probe in the standard format without any attachment option but we are currently trying to add some attachment in XML format so...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

Compliance - Data retention policy for ITM

To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within ITM that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
about 2 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration