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Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Built-In Host disk space event description must include the mount point (for Unix and Linux).

Currently event description looks like : Deveice '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v' is full. Clean space on '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v'.... This not descriptive and less usable. It's more preferred to use mount point instead of disk device space.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Hide data source cost and usage report (allocated) for certain users

Not all users necessarily understand the difference between the data sources and not that many will be using the cost sharing feature. Hence it should be possible to hide it for some users and show it for others.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Add USERID= to TEP Action on a Situation

We need TEP to issue a CEMT SET TASK taskno PURGE command to a CICS region where the task triggers a particular Situation. We can do that, however, we need a particular RACF Userid associated with it. Currently it is the ID of the Situation creato...
8 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

Add integration for Dynatrace to ingest granular metrics for Virtual Machine rightsizing

Currently Cloudability supports New Relic and Datadog for VM utilisation metrics - please can you add support for Dynatrace
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Add ability to send email to ALL users

I would be very helpful to have the ability to send an email to ALL users. We are an on-prem installation.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 1 Not under consideration