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Must-Gather tools required for the Instana Agent

The Tiger Team is working with support an others on a tool called Tiger-Optics that is using AI to analyze Must-Gather data from customers to help accelerate problem diagnostics. So far we have done work to process data for the backend. This is pa...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Future consideration

Support Azure AI Foundry OpenAI-Compatible Endpoints in Instana LLM Gateway

We would like to request an enhancement to IBM Instana LLM Gateway to support Azure AI Foundry's Azure OpenAI-compatible endpoints, enabling customers to use their own enterprise LLM services (Bring Your Own Model / Bring Your Own GenAI). Azure AI...
19 days ago in Instana / GenAI observability Future consideration

Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Add Traceroute Capability to SevOne Data Insight GUI

Description Customers are requesting the ability to perform a traceroute directly from within the SevOne Data Insight (DI) interface, similar to the functionality currently available in the SevOne NMS UI (e.g., alongside SNMP Walk tools). Today, D...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Enable Instana AI Features with Customer‑Managed LLMs

Currently, Instana already provides valuable capabilities such as incident summarization, which are extremely useful for daily operations and troubleshooting. However, the integration with large language models is tightly coupled to IBM Watson, an...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations Future consideration

Configuration option to preserve ifOperStatus data polled during ifLastChange updates

In the current implementation, SevOne discards all polled data for a given polling interval whenever it detects an update to ifLastChange. Although this behaviour is designed to maintain data consistency, it introduces a significant limitation for...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition (ITNM): Add support for autostart with systemd

Current autostart configuration for ITNM according to IBM: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/networkmanager/4.2.0?topic=crrp-configuring-processes-start-automatically-in-non-root-installation According to the documentation and when reading the "create_i...
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Future consideration

Support for Power Enterprise Pool (PEP) on PowerVM Targets

PEP on IBM Power systems, is a technological solution that allows you to flexibly manage computing resources (processors, memory) on multiple Power servers within the same farm, aggregating the capabilities of multiple machines into a single share...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) Future consideration

The same underlying date field is exposed under different names in Apptio Targetprocess Request Entity —“Completion Date” in the UI, “Finished” in lists, and “EndDate” in filters—and this inconsistency is by design and not currently configurable.

Why it’s useful Clarifies that the naming inconsistency is out‑of‑the‑box behavior, not a misconfiguration by your team. Prevents wasted effort trying to rename or standardize fields that cannot be unified today. Establishes the correct field name...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience Future consideration

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