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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.
1 day 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 ...
about 11 hours ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Mashup or User Selectable Board Filter

As a scrum master I would benefit from the capability to utilize Custom Quick Filters or a visual mashup enhancement to select an assigned user from a custom quick filter drop-down or as a mashup visual pop-up of the assigned people to a board. To...
about 9 hours ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 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...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Expose DB2 JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values in Instana SQL traces (optional / configurable)

For enterprise z/OS customers running mission‑critical DB2 workloads, Instana SQL visibility is functionally limited because AutoTrace, by design, does not capture JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values, rendering all parameters as ?. While d...
6 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Custom Dashboard - Show Data labels in Pie Chart

We use Instana extensively across our enterprise and have been building custom dashboards with pie charts for various reporting needs. While analyzing the data, we noticed that the pie‑chart tooltip displays only the percentage value without the c...
6 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Support for AWS AMI Teardown/Security Lifecycle Policy -- extending pod spec abstraction to EC2/IaaS

My client has a Cloud Security policy where every 30 days, every VM Appliance in AWS is torn down and rebuilt. This creates an issue where after rebuild, that resource is tracked by Turbo under a new UUID and historical data is not tied back to th...
about 11 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Implement sensor for observability of applications developed in PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder remains a crucial framework for massive, traditional ERP and financial systems in sectors such as government, healthcare, and banking. These applications are the backbone of many organizations, but they lack modern observability. With...
1 day ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

New permission enabling the viewing and editing data for all active and archived plans.

Currently, a role must be granted the "ManagePlans" permission to view and edit data for all active and archived plans. However, this also gives them the ability to create, open, archive, restore, and delete plans. This new permission would allow ...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted