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Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Add more info for the display of "No Data Available" to distinguish whether data is unavailable or there is no data.

For example, with"Nesessary Investment" widget, if there is none of Investment related actions, it shows "No Data Available"....but it should be showing as "No proposal" ... I would like to be able to distinguish between them. (Data should be avai...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

When SSO is enforced, there should be a supported way to disable admin account login

As of NPM 8.1, the ability to enforce SSO and disable all password login is supported. However, the admin (uid=1) user is exempt from this as a failsafe. A client would like to a supported way to disable the admin user, when SSO is enforced, as a ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Cloudability Dynamic Currency Service

Rather than use a manual upload of currencies for managing cldy cross platform currencies, it would make sense to use a dynamic service to make an API call and set this in the platform as opposed to a manual upload. API is also a must
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

We need support for monitoring the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Nutanix was named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Support RDS DB2 for MDM DB & DWC DB

Planning to deploy IWS to ROSA environment and there we want to use RDS Db2 for MDM and DWC. In the knowledge center, RDS for Oracle, RDS for MSSQL and RDS Postgres is documented, but RDS for Db2 is not listed. Could you support the RDS for Db2 also?
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
7 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Overwrite Capability for Custom Calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Need overwrite capability for custom calendar. Not able to update our custom calendar after it's loaded once; you can only append dates. It's rare, but o...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration