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Extende the AWS metric streams to AWS MSK and ElastiCache

Hello Team, It looks like AWS Metric Streams currently do not support Amazon MSK and Amazon ElastiCache metrics. As a result, we're unable to ingest and monitor these services through our existing Metric Streams pipeline. I'm opening this Aha! req...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

Add impersonate to Targetprocess (similar to how it is done in Apptio Planning)

I will troubleshoot and go to a bunch of different screens to see what the problem is or what they are seeing. If I could impersonate them and see what they see, it would help me diagnose the problem a lot faster and it would help me test the role...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Future consideration

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Mechanism to prevent the same instance of a widget from repeatedly sending requests when there is no response to a previous request

Currently, DASH triggers multiple GET requests from widgets to the corresponding datasets, driven by an update timer. However, when a request does not receive a response, DASH lacks a mechanism to stop repeated requests from the same widget instan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Planned for future release

Monitor UP condition to use "OR" logic to allow multiple distinct status codes

Add support for 'OR' logic on NS1 to monitor UP conditions. Currently, when multiple HTTP status codes are set (e.g., HTTP 200 and HTTP 404), the system requires all conditions to be met at the same time. This update would allow the monitor to be ...
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / RUM-based traffic steering (Pulsar) 0 Under review

Run report on Tags in NS1 Connect

Add capability to run scheduled reports on groups of zones/ records with a specific tag.
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / DNS Insights 0 Under review

Rightsizing recommendations for databricks

Offer recommendations to rightsize databricks and eliminate wasted spend.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add the “Creation Date” dimension for snapshot analysis

I would like to kindly ask if it would be possible to add the “Creation Date” dimension for snapshot analysis. Including this dimension would provide us with a more detailed and accurate view of the data, enhancing the effectiveness of our analysis.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Improve the Alert Contextual Menu user interface by adding scroll support, proper layout structure, and clear navigation cues so users can easily view and navigate all available filter options.

In the Alert Contextual Menu, the list of available filter options does not display a scroll bar and lacks proper indentation or visual navigation cues between sections or pages. As a result, only a subset of available filters is visible at any gi...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review