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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

Introduce Command Throttling / Rate Limiting for User Commands in TWS

Business Requirement We would like IBM to consider introducing a configurable command throttling or rate-limiting capability for user commands executed against the TWS Master Domain Manager. Current Challenge At present, users can submit a large n...
7 days ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Make effective savings available in dashboards

Please make effective rightsizing savings available in dashboards and ApptioBI
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Update ATUM mapping to V5

Current version is V4 and does not contain AI capabilities.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Add team association to Automation actions

While using tags and setting the matching tags in team scope to limit access of users to Automated actions, HSBC would like to have the same direct team association available.
11 days ago in Instana / Access Control / Automation Future consideration

Cloudability Widget: Enhancement Request: Support Month Dimension with Display Change (%) Month Comparison

The team has a valid business reporting use case where they want to display the Month dimension alongside Display Change → Percent to compare month-over-month spend by Account Group. Currently, when the Month dimension is added to the widget, the ...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Provide granularity anomaly alerts of individual job or script execution

Providing granular anomaly alerts for individual BigQuery jobs, SQL queries, or script executions would be very useful because the current alerting model tells teams that BigQuery spend spiked, but not always which exact execution caused it, who r...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 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

Specify Pre/Post Aggregation filters for KPI Widgets on Dashboards

Currently, filters like Cost(Total)>1 apply to KPI widgets after aggregation, rather than before. This means that the same filter on a KPI widget will produce different aggregate results compared to a table or chart widget, leading to user conf...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Generate an IWS Network Topology from the DWC

We have a very large IWS environment (over 700 workstations, 64 domains). It would be extremely beneficial for us if we could automatically generate a visual topology of our IWS network. Ideally, this would help show the domains and domain manager...
23 days ago in Workload Automation Future consideration