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Pivot Compatibility with 3 modeled metrics stacked bar charting

In Apptio Cost Transparency reporting, when creating a stacked bar chart, we can configure three modeled metrics to stack on top of each other by placing a dimension in the "Columns" section and the modeled metrics in the "Values" section of the c...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
8 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Optimise Edgetype mapping on ServiceNow Observer

in ServiceNow Observer, there's need for a bit more intelligence in picking the right default edgetype for relationships .but there seem to be better alternatives Edgetypes available, some relationships are being set to "connectedTo" when there se...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Impact nci_import/nci_export: improve handling of command line format errors

nci_import and nci_export do not handle command line parameter mistakes properly. And the --help function is misleading regarding the sequence of parameters: The position of "OPTIONS" is not mentioned in the "Synopsis" *and* is listed after the ar...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add support for Tomcat Server Datasources using the Oracle UCP Driver

This would provide additional visibility into Tomcat applications that use the Oracle UCP datasource. Today there is no visibility for datasource usage on Tomcat servers using the UCP driver. This makes it difficult to correlate pool usage/availab...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

An option during the upgrade or uninstall of an agent to only choose the Dynamic Agent and not the FTA

During the installation of an agent, an option is available (-agent dynamic|fta|both) to choose which type of agent to install, either a Dynamic Agent (DA) or an Fault-Toerant Agent (FTA). A similar option must exist for upgrade (-update) and unin...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

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