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Ability to view logs after agent loss

It would be interesting to be able to view an agent's logs from the SaaS in order to analyze the reason for its loss. Currently, logs can only be viewed when the agent is reporting to the SaaS, but it would be good to be able to analyze the last m...
12 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Filter Metric and Dimension Availability based on User Credential

The volume of available metrics and dimension can be overwhelming for the average user, who likely need just a small subset. For example, its possible to have 6+ different cost metrics available to use in reporting - it's likely users should just ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Different Decimal Precision Option for Non-Financial Numbers in Apptio Planning

Our labor data on the labor tab shows full time equivalent (FTE) in the quantity field. We have our number format set to 0 decimal places in company profile as cents are not necessary when displaying our financials. However, due to this rounding, ...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
over 4 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

consolecli.sh no plaintext password as parameter

consolecli.sh from JazzSM has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should no...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

seperate UserRoles for GUI Login and CLI/SSO

In JazzSM the smadmin Roles are used for GUI Login, using cli Commands the SSO Integration(like ASM). For security reasons, it will be usefull to seperate users - which can login to GUI - which can use cli commands - which can be used to SSO-Integ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Detection of Card/PSU/Fan inserted/removed from the device

We need a mechanism in IBM ITNM to detect and identify hardware changes between consecutive discoveries. The requirement is to compare the hardware inventory of a network device across multiple discovery cycles and determine whether any hardware c...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Submitted