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Disk Alerts - Group by fs_mount in dashboard chart

Each hostname can have multiple mount points, while creating widget in the custom dashboard we are not able to group by fs_mount to display the disk mount percentage of each host. Withou tthis option, how do we know which mount i having a problem ...
5 days ago in Instana / User Interface Functionality already exists

Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Functionality already exists

Show Read-only Variance Analysis for Forecast Plans in Final State

Currently Variance Analysis data and commentary is hidden when a forecast plan is moved to the Final state. A message appears saying "Variance Analysis is only available for Forecast plans in New and Open states.". Please change this to show the v...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Functionality already exists

Expand functionality on /api/v3/data/topn endpoint to consider custom timespan like in NMS Web UI

The /api/v3/data/topn endpoint accepts a variety of parameters (aggregation unit, device filters, sorting, etc.), but it does not include a timespan selection. While the API response does include a label attribute (e.g., "Today") and a timeRanges ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Functionality already exists

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i Functionality already exists

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Functionality already exists

Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Functionality already exists

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
about 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) Functionality already exists

Request for Enhancement: Prevent Multiple Master Roles in IWS

In IWS automatic failover configurations, after a failure and subsequent recovery, there is a possibility that multiple MDM/BKM instances with master roles may run simultaneously (split brain). In evaluation environment, this situation caused a ba...
8 months ago in Workload Automation Functionality already exists

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Functionality already exists

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