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RI plans for items other than VM

Volumes, SQL Databases (vCore), Blob storage? Other RI plans / Savings plan projections would be excessively useful!
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Under review

Instana IBM DataPower monitoring to be able to monitor the certificates being monitored on IBM DataPower

We would like to get events on certificate expiry within the certificates that are being monitored within IBM DataPower. When the certificates are about to expire.
2 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Under review

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Support on AliCloud

Customer is onboarding workloads on AliCloud. They are running their AIOps Platform on Cloud Pak for AIOps and its not supported on AliCloud per the official documentation.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Adding a hostname in the logging

Hello,a update on this idea. We have tested it and find out, that we need a servername in the Log entries. Currently the log entries come with the pod names, such as zookeeper, market, topology, ...! This means we cannot find our entries in a cent...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Under review

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement. Better value for "suggestion" field is highly desirable. It currently has so much undesired detail with line breaks unlike other alert "suggestion" field. Find actual alert paylod in a...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Under review

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Add an Export button in UI to export metrics/analytics data to a CSV file

The requested feature is to have a button in the UI to allow exporting metrics or analytics from a dashboard into a CSV file or other types of consumable files. This is needed for any large organization to enable the creation of basic reports to d...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review