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Centralized Process Management for Core Domain Start/Stop in Horizontally Scaled Environment

In our current environment, we are having to manage approximately 30 domains configured across 20 physical servers with High Availability. This architecture necessitates the manual start and stop of up to 60 domains during scheduled maintenance ac...
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Impact out of the box Netcool Impact MWM check completion flag needed

Suppressed alerts are falsely forwarded to upstream systems like event-automation as we cant explicitly filter out 'MWM Processed' alerts.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow users to select their right-click menu options, not display all by default

End users should individually be able to select which right-click menu options they have available to them, not be granted all the selections by default. Admins should define which are the necessary right-click actions as the default, and then the...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Show which events were suppressed during maintenance

Dear Colleagues, our customer is heavily using automations for maintenance operations and request for visualisation of events which were suppressed from Incident creation and escalation. It is very useful during troubleshooting to understand if th...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Request enhancements to Azure PrivateLink integration

AWS PrivateLink already provides integration features. However, in the financial and industrial sectors, many users rely on Azure, and since private network connectivity is required for mission-critical systems, there are cases where proposals can...
6 months ago in Instana / Azure 2 Needs more information

Commitment Support for Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel prices based on logging data and how long those logs are kept. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/pricing/microsoft-sentinel#section-master-oc2d43
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

COIN Score cannot be incorporated into Apptio BI without purchasing TBM Studio

I want to use the COIN score from the new optimization dashboard but I can't get it in the Apptio BI dashboard without purchasing the TBM studio software. Please add a way to incorporate parts of the optimization dashboard into Apptio BI.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information