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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...
11 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...
11 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 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...
20 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
5 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Add a “Contains” operator for the Namespace dimension in Container Reporting to enable flexible partial matching similar to the Cluster dimension.

Currently, within Container Reporting, when filtering by the Namespace dimension, only the “Equals To” operator is available. Unlike the Cluster dimension, which supports the “Contains” operator, this limitation restricts flexibility in filtering ...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ability to create a threshold on Performance Metrics Widget

Other vendors like Riverbed, can display a red color alert on the graph when the metric axceed a specific threshold. So we expect to have the same on SevOne.
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted