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Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Enable tag-based filtering to pre-snooze rightsizing recommendations directly in the Cloudability UI

The API currently supports filtering (pre-snoozing) rightsizing recommendations by tags, but this functionality is missing from the UI. Adding this feature would allow users to filter (pre-snooze) recommendations directly in the interface without ...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Enhance Dashboard Table Widget to Support Application Perspectives, Services, and Endpoints

The current Table Widget (Public Preview) supports infrastructure and platform entities but does not support displaying application-level entities such as services, endpoints, or application perspectives. Customers frequently want to create operat...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Add widget support for existing scorecard data to be shown on dashboards

Frequently have meetings with individual leaders of our software development teams. We currently have over 60 software teams and it would be very beneficial to have scorecards and ranking data for just their squads embedded in the dashboards we re...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add a send test alert button in the monitors notification settings

When I set up a monitor and connect it to my email notification list, I have no way to confirm the alert will actually reach my team. Right now the only way to test it is to wait for a real outage, or manually force one of my endpoints down to tri...
3 months ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS 1 Not under consideration

New policy setting to control moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds

We want to be able let the client say "take actions more quickly in this cluster, or for these VMs." Currently, we can adjust moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds, but this is a global configuration option and only applies to on-prem Move actions. The ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Drill down into the details for widgets

Currently No maximize view option available for charts in App perspective or mostly all widgets in Instana default dashboards. Client can see Latency spikes, erroneous calls in time series widgets, but to view the list of erroneous calls, or list ...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Disk Alerts - Group by fs_mount in dashboard chart

Each hostname can have multiple mount points, while creating widget in the custom dashboard we are not able to group by fs_mount to display the disk mount percentage of each host. Withou tthis option, how do we know which mount i having a problem ...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Functionality already exists

Features on Alerts

Repeat notifications at a configurable interval Choose option to notify for alert closures. If repeated alert stops, it means the issue is closed alert. We don't need separate close email. Stop notifications when the alert is closed or acknowledge...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration