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Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Need to be able download PDF of current list of events

Hello colleagues, we have a request from customer to deliver option of downloading current list of Events/Incidents from "Events" in Instana dashboards. At the moment we have the functionality with "Custom dashboards", but it is not always an opti...
5 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

implementing intelligent recommendations and remediation for Instana alerts

Got a feedback from my one of the largest manufacturer clients in Hong Kong. They would like to have a a quick summary of our Intelligent Recommendations and Remediation in the alert email. They thought that the current email does not have have th...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Apptio Costing:::Data anomaly detection configuration options

The current Anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio helps identify when loaded data changes. This idea suggestion is to add more configurable options to this feature. Specifically for each dataset I would suggest being able to configure a percent ...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Guided application workflow for making new metric reportable

When learning and teaching others TBM Studio, one of the challenges is all of the manual steps required to do something that is simple in every other BI tool: Make a column of numeric values in a dataset reportable. To do this today you must: Crea...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Prevent Instana from Auto-Closing ServiceNow Incidents When They Are In-Progress

Description: Currently, Instana–ServiceNow integration automatically creates and closes incidents based on the lifecycle of Instana alerts. Behavior today: When an Instana event is triggered, an incident is successfully created in ServiceNow. When...
6 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted