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Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Automatically discover, list, and monitor all operating system processes running on a host

Background and current limitation Please enhance IBM Instana so that it automatically discovers all operating system processes running on a host and provides a complete process list with key resource metrics, without requiring administrators to ma...
13 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Expose entity-related IDs and linked relationships fields in customize cards/views and allow for export

The objective is to enable the creation of a list view that displays all inbound and outbound relationships associated with an Initiative, Key Milestone, or any other entity and download it.
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export Submitted

Allow configuration on out of the box functionality

User experience and satisfaction using TPro is LOW. Because we cannot configure OOB entities, the path has been to re-create functionality in custom entities to provide users with a better experience. This is not sustainable or maintainable. For e...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus Submitted

Ability to create custom dimensions against the hour field in either the cost and usage data or utilisation data

This is useful to have instance scheduling dashboards and drive optimisations for when cloud services are running. this can also be useful to determine at a low level when an anomaly occurs
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

account level budgeting in tool and associated alerts

the ability to set a budget against an account id business dimension to then be tracked against account spend and create alerts
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Recommendation age to track how long it has been around

this would be good to track age of a recommendation and enable the prioritisation of aged recommendations
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

make available for report and report subscription

If the anomaly detection data could be made available for enhanced reporting to report with tags as well as report subscriptions
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Submitted

Enhanced forecast - make the other category grouping optional

We have been using the new forecasting tool but when we try to get a more detailed forecast beyond say account id to include service name to see drivers but this exceeds the row limit and then other data is lumped into an other category where we c...
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Detection of Card/PSU/Fan inserted/removed from the device

We need a mechanism in IBM ITNM to detect and identify hardware changes between consecutive discoveries. The requirement is to compare the hardware inventory of a network device across multiple discovery cycles and determine whether any hardware c...
1 day ago in Tivoli Network Manager Submitted