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Enhancing Instana Synthetic Monitoring with Latency-Based Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests provide smart alerts primarily based on execution status (success/failure). While this is valuable, it limits the ability to proactively detect performance degradation that occurs before failures. We propose exte...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Parking features for ROKS environment with Turbonomic

Related to the idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-1477, a client is looking for ROKS environment support with Turbonomic, in this case, the parking features. Currently, they have a couple of ROKS clusters in IBM Cloud that they would like to...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Under review

API Enhancement for AS400 Active Jobs Details in Instana

Hi Team, As of now, in Instana for AS400 devices under the "Active Jobs Information on IBM" parameter, we are able to fetch the following column details through the API query provided by the Instana vendor: Job Name User Name Elapsed CPU Percentag...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Java 7 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Support for AI services on Cloudability Sustainability Reporting

As part of our GreenAI initiative, we would like to be able to report on sustainability metrics for AI-related services on all three major cloud providers (eg: Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI). This is not currently available, could yo...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Filter Behaviour in Planning Dashboard / Views

Similar to storing a filter in Expenses tabs via the Layout (e.g. Default Layout) storing a default filter in Dashboard view by Admin would be great.  Ideally can also define their own filters storing in their own "layout" that applies to das...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Alternative Identity Provider Support for IBM Concert on OpenShift (LDAP & Local Users)

Solution Value Statement Customers deploying IBM Concert on OpenShift often lack OpenID Connect with Keycloak. Providing alternative authentication options such as LDAP or local user management ensures broader adoption, simplifies onboarding, and ...
12 months ago in Concert 3 Not under consideration