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Adding Multiple APP ID to view

Currently, adding multiple Application IDs to a view is a tedious manual process.
33 minutes ago in Cloudability / Views Submitted

disable hosted instana agent bedrock LLM payload

this is follow up to TS022046587 TS022046587 solution is still using span UI to hide bedrock LLM call payload on UI we need a new feature to add new env etc following to disable LLM call payload for hosted instana agent in ecs fargate INSTANA_LLM_...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

#Lack of Visibility for Tomcat CPU Utilization Additionally, during CPU spike events on the web servers, the CPU usage is currently shown only at a high level as Apache Tomcat. To assist with effective troubleshooting, it would be helpful to have more granular visibility into the internal processes, threads, or activities within Tomcat that are contributing to the high CPU usage.

#Lack of Visibility for Tomcat CPU Utilization Additionally, during CPU spike events on the web servers, the CPU usage is currently shown only at a high level as Apache Tomcat. To assist with effective troubleshooting, it would be helpful to have ...
about 13 hours ago in ITM/IBM APM Submitted

User permissions to deny access to cost and reporting API

Creating service users with roles that are able to access APIs such as anomaly detection and budgeting without allowing the user to access cost and reporting API access. Allowing access to cost and reporting can cause security concerns with resour...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government Submitted

Template explosion and limited extraction in Cloud Pak for AIOps (LAD)

Customers using Cloud Pak for AIOps Log Anomaly Detection (LAD) struggle to manage rapidly growing volumes of log templates due to high variability and insufficient structure in ingested log data. This “template explosion” reduces the effectivenes...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Future consideration

Metric Explorer for Instana

Elevance Health has this capability in the Broadcom Wily tool and it was very convenient. It is lacking in Instana.
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Singularity (now Apptainer) Monitoring

While giving a Demo to St.Jude as a prospective customer they asked us about Instana and Container monitoring , specifically on a container software called Apptainer (formerly Singularity) which they are required to use. this was asked byt the HPC...
3 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Global Calendar Configuration Request for Roadmap view

We would like to request the ability to configure a global calendar setting within Apptio TargetProcess "Roadmap view" that allows administrators to define a standard date range (start and end dates) applicable across all users and workspaces. Cur...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports Submitted

File watcher job that can monitor cloud storage like Azure blobs and S3 buckets

We have manu business teams migrating from traditional file stores using DFS / SMB to Azure blobs and AWS S3 buckets. They would still like the ability to run jobs based on file creation or other events in these new storage types.
3 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Greater visibility of AT times in the DWC

The integration of AT times as an explicit, visual dependency within the Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) would bridge a critical gap between time-based scheduling and dependency logic. Currently, an At time often acts as a silent gatekeeper; a job ...
3 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted