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Ability to save Generic Threshold output in POLLDATA Database

Enhance IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM) to support storing Generic Threshold output in the POLLDATA database, enabling users to query and retrieve threshold results directly from the database for live reporting. The current requirement involves ...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Enable Service Composer to expose values exported by an Ansible Job Template activity (via set_stats artifacts) as linkable output parameters for downstream activities, matching the existing behavior of Terraform and Helm activities.

Description: In Service Composer (IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.11.1, Infrastructure Automation), only Terraform and Helm activities publish output parameters that can be linked to downstream activities. The Ansible Job Template activity has input par...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Out of the box field for Country that maps regions

There are many regions across the globe that customers can deploy their infrastructure. It would be good to have an out of the box field that maps each region to the country where the infrastructure is. All that is needed is to use the Region fiel...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Namespace-Scoped Agent configuration

Based on my research, it is not possible to provide different configurations for agents deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. Currently, the Instana Agent operates primarily on a cluster-wide configuration.We propose/request a feature to enable differ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Add a 'Alternate Name' for DI Reports and have it available as Report Name alias or similar

As per title, in some scenarios, customers might require additional columns or attributes to refer to a report. We already offer similar features in other areas of the product like device's alternate names and even Tenant Display names. Having a s...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Under review

Decimal Formatting Control for Waterfall Charts in TBM Studio

We are requesting the ability to suppress decimal values on Waterfall chart data labels within TBM Studio's reporting views. Specifically, we would like monetary totals (e.g., Total Monthly Spend) to display as whole numbers rather than with decim...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Instana Auto Incident Closure

The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Multiple Vcenters using single instana agent VM

Dear IBM, I am facing issue to monitor 5 Vcenters of my client with single instana agent, Vcenters Credentials i added in the configuration.yaml file but every time it takes last Vcenter to Instana UI. I used different approaches in the yaml as we...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration