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    Access to public Artifactory repositories via web browsers is restricted due to company security controls.

    Our company laptops have recently been migrated to a cloud‑native environment. Previously, we used specific URLs with dedicated credentials to download Instana and MQ‑related software. However, under the new setup, the credential pop‑up prompt is ...
    7 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

    Need better alert content

    When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
    7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

    Support for Custom Alert Channels in Instana

    Today, to integrate Instana with other tools we rely on webhooks. However, the target tools are often not expecting the Instana payload format, which forces teams to develop custom adapters to transform the data before it can be consumed. In our c...
    7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

    Current Date formula in reports and/or filtering

    I would like to implement a dynamic filtering mechanism that automatically adjusts based on the current date. Specifically, I want to embed a formula within the filter logic so that when a report is opened—regardless of how much time has passed—it...
    over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Reports 2 Needs more information

    Is it possible to do delta measurements between values within DI. For example if i want to look at these column for max and min and find the delta between the two values.

    For better visibility in Data Insight. This is as per user request.
    over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

    Process monitoring dashboard

    We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

    In CFP, color the forecast cells that have been updated by users.

    In CFP, there is currently a status tab that shows a list of cells that have been updated by users. While this is very helpful for auditability, it is not the most user friendly. It would be beneficial is you could highlight the cells within the f...
    3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning 0 Submitted

    Introduce an AI-powered root cause analysis and automated remediation recommendation feature in IBM Instana to help organizations identify incidents faster, reduce downtime, and improve enterprise observability efficiency.

    As enterprise IT environments continue to grow in complexity, organizations are managing thousands of applications, microservices, containers, Kubernetes clusters, APIs, cloud resources, and hybrid infrastructure components. Although IBM Instana p...
    3 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 0 Functionality already exists

    Export directly in xls or xlsx format

    It would be useful to have the possibility to directly export into a more common Excel format next to the csv format.
    over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

    Additional opportunities listed other than rightsizing

    Would be good to have additional opportunities in Apptio, ie. modernise infrastructure (eg. move from m5 > m7), GP2 > GP3, Volumes unattached for 90 days, snapshots older than 90 days, Apply AHUB in azure.
    10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

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