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File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Plan function, moving VMs from Vmware onprem to Openshift Virtualization

We have a Strategic customer (already Turbonomic customer) in Italy, with a strong deadline (end of 2026) to migrate Vmware -> RH openshift virt.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Allow filter for "Invoice Date" within a "Dashboard"

This is useful for many reasons. Here is what prompted this idea request: 1. Cross-charge reconciliation - Applying "Invoice Date" as a filter to the entire dashboard will allow us to immediately reconcile invoiced costs for a given month. We can ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Extend MQ sensor auto-discovery to allow filtering in/out of queues, channels and topics

Currently it is only possible to apply the following filters when the QM is explicitly defined in the configuration.yaml. queuesIncludeRegex queuesExcludeRegex queuesInclude channelsIncludeRegex channelsExcludeRegex topicsIncludeRegex ...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 3 Future consideration

Query Builder built directly into the Grafana Plugin

Currently, when creating dashboards and alerts in Grafana and utilising the Instana Datasource (especially for Trace data), it is expected to provide a JSON tagFilterExpression Object for the query. This is a huge challenge and most users, especia...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Expand the size of the Cloudability Dashboard Level Filter display box

This would allow for better visibility to what filters are available since it truncates causing confusion on what filter to select.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Enable TBM Studio UI and API to provide a deep link that with the settings of all of the slicers/filters that can be shared to point a user to a Dashboard on TBM Studio with slicers/filters set to that value filtered for them

If a team is only interested in DATABASE costs for a specific CLOUD ACCOUNT that is shown on a TBM Studio dashboard, then the ADMINS/FinOps should be able via the UI and/or the API get get a deep link (sharing link) to that dashboard URL that has ...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

ADSF Citation - NSFM - LTPAToken2 SameSite=Strict causing NOI/Jazz UI failures in Hybrid Domain Deployments on 1.6.14 version.

As per bank security policy, the LTPAToken2 response cookie must have SameSite attribute set to Strict across all environments. However, enabling this configuration in NOI 1.6.14 leads to functional failures in hybrid and cross-domain deployments....
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review