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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

Apptio Costing:::Improve enumeration and display of error message in transform pipeline

The error message in transform pipeline will often only surface a single error, even if there are multiple errors. This leads to an inefficient experience of clearing one error, only to be notified of another, and then another. Instead, the user i...
14 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 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

Apptio Costing:::Default time period roll forward options

This idea is to add a configuration to automatically roll forward the default time period in TBM Studio projects. Currently this can only be done manually. It would be helpful to be able to set a rule like current month - 1, or current month, so t...
14 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow weighting by fields with mix of positive and negative numbers

Currently within TBM Studio, if you create an allocation, it is really tempting to choose "weight by number" or "weight by metric" to allocate a quantity. However, if there is ANY chance that the column providing the weighting will have a mixture ...
14 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Group metrics into folders

The project explorer lists metrics alphabetically without respect for use-cases. This idea is to introduce the ability for a TBM Administrator to group metrics into folders by use case. This would help people creating reports to select the appropr...
14 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Automatic granularity

A common challenge in TBM Studio configuration is finding and eliminating "various" throughout the model. This represents where granularity is lost through grouping down data, and it will impact allocations and reporting. This idea is to implement...
14 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 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...
6 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...
6 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration