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Support for Temenos

We would like to request support for monitoring the Temenos Transact (T24) core banking platform within Instana. The customer is running Temenos Transact (T24) using a combination of: TAFC (Temenos Application Framework for C), and Java components...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Enhance NcKL to include CALIX platform traps of Optical Networks

Currently, NcKL does not provide coverage for CALIX platform traps. As a result, all incoming traps are being incorrectly associated with the OLT rather than their corresponding ONTs. This enhancement request is to extend NcKL support to include C...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Provide Effective Costs for Computer Specs (Azure App Service Plans)

Efficiency Opportunity and Realized Savings aren't reflecting the accurate costs for Computer Specs when the resources are consuming Savings Plans or Reserved Instances.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Re-Add the ability to view Cloudability Premium Workload Optimizer (Turbonomic) version

Previously when clicking 'About Turbonomic' in Cloudability Premium Workload Optimizer, it would display the version. This is helpful when determining when to update the version of Kubeturbo
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Instana Recipient List in Email Alert

Instana portal to check the recipient list. The client has raised the importance of having full visibility on who receives the alert without needing to navigate back to Instana, as this enhances transparency and efficiency in their workflow. This ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 4 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable Customizable Event Generation for Log Anomaly Detection Using Golden Signals

Currently, log anomaly detection generates events based on predefined criteria. To improve operational flexibility and reduce noise, users should have the ability to customize the events generated from log anomalies by leveraging Golden Signals (L...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Needs more information

Add filters to the Related Targets panel

On the Target Status panel, there is an error that says "There is an issue with related targets. Click the 'Related targets' tab for details." When viewing the Related Targets panel, it is difficult to find the issue when there is a large number (...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review