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Allow customization of alert colors in Data Insight

Currently, alert severity colors in SevOne Data Insight (Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, etc.) are fixed and cannot be customized. The existing Custom Themes feature only supports changing the Brand Color (a single global accent) and selecting a ...
3 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Enhance Service Name (or other dimensions) with AI Model Names from Product Name

Currently, services such as AWS Bedrock (particularly when purchased in AWS Marketplace in this user's scenario) pass through the name of the AI model being used in the Product Name dimension. However, Product Name is not available in TrueCost Exp...
3 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 0 Submitted

Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
3 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

Frontdoor Permission for Private, Non-Shareable Views

Request is for a new permission configuration within Frontdoor access model that allows users to create and manage their own private views but restricts them from sharing those views with others. Ability to create, edit, and delete personal views ...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Enable Custom Certificate Duration and Support External Certificate Issuers for All Components in Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x

During Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x installation, the certificate creation step fails because the application default certificate duration does not align with the bank’s certificate manager requirements. Specifically, the default duration conflicts wit...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

native integration with CyberArk

Instana currently lacks native integration with CyberArk, a leading enterprise privileged access management (PAM) and secret management platform. To support secure deployments and align with common enterprise security requirements, Instana needs f...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

View costs by FY breakdown in Cloudability and Apptio BI

Currently costs can only be viewed by calendar year. Several customer finance teams have asked for the ability to view cost breakdowns by FY in dashboards and widgets.
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

End to End Recommendations, assignments and tracking in a single view

As an end user, I need organized recommendation in user readable format (Example: Compute / Database week end shutdown, Volume Upgrade etc). Grouping all the items under rightsizing is confusing. As an end user, I need to easily navigate the recom...
about 6 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Option to Ingest Only Host Metrics on Instana Agents (Disable All Sensors)

Summary Provide a configuration option to allow Instana Agents to collect only host-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, etc.) while disabling all automatic sensors and application monitoring. This mode should be configurable either: via E...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted