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AWS RDS: Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Planned for future release

Automated Scheduled Report Delivery

Introduce a feature that enables users to schedule reports for automatic generation and delivery via email at predefined intervals (e.g., daily, weekly, or monthly). Description:- We would like to inquire whether Targetprocess supports the automat...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

3+ Object Reporting

Currently reporting is limited to only 2 objects in one report but there is an increasing ask for multiple object reporting for CIO/CFO detailed reporting. The ask is to increase the number of objects to 3 at the least to enable more granular vie...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 8

Azure mapping of Usage Type and Usage Family change to align with other CSPs

Currently, Usage Type is a concatenation of the Meter Category and Meter SubCategory columns from the Azure Billing Export Report (or the cost data API endpoint). This prevents a one-to-one comparison of CLDY to the source data since a combining o...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Under review

Add functionality to cover financial instruments in other CSPs, matching the CSP coverage of Cloudability

For all multi-cloud customers that use Cloudability as the main FinOps Platform, automation tools for anything but AWS has to be purchased by another vendor. This makes the FinOps suit incomplete and adds all the overhead of another FinOps agreeme...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add more info for the display of "No Data Available" to distinguish whether data is unavailable or there is no data.

For example, with"Nesessary Investment" widget, if there is none of Investment related actions, it shows "No Data Available"....but it should be showing as "No proposal" ... I would like to be able to distinguish between them. (Data should be avai...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Expose Real-Time Beacon Ingestion Health Signal to SaaS Tenants

Problem Statement As an Instana SaaS customer using End User Monitoring (EUM) for website and mobile app monitoring, there is currently no way to proactively verify that beacon data is being successfully ingested and processed by the Instana backe...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Verizon is requesting dashboard-friendly API capabilities for the Concert Operate / AIOps GET Alerts API

Background The Verizon SA360 application requires access to alert/event data from IBM Concert Operate / AIOps. SA360 provides an Alerts Dashboard used by Verizon NMC operators. These users do not access the AIOps native UI.  The dashboard mus...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Provide a complete machine-readable image inventory for each Instana Custom Edition release

Problem Customers with controlled or revision-safe deployment processes need to know the complete set of container images required for a specific Instana Custom Edition release before deployment. The rendered Helm manifests do not provide the full...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1