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OKD Support for Instana

Our customer SGK have extensive OKD workloads and monitoring them is extremely important.

Allow for time buckets on dashboards

When aggregating metrics over periods of time, Instana automatically adjusts and adds or averages metrics over different time buckets (for instance, for 1 hour, it groups in 1-minute, if we take 2 hours, 5-minute buckets, etc.)... If one could cho...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow for more than 30 business mappings. Suggest 50 business mappings.

Due to complexities and groupings, it would be beneficial to have more than 30 business mappings allowed. Suggest 50 for a potential to utilize these for report granularity.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Not under consideration

Support deprecation of Basic Authentication for ServiceNow

See: https://www.servicenow.com/community/itsm-articles/review-basic-authentication-account-security/ta-p/3555125 Basic Auth is being phased out. Provide alternative authentication mechanisms for the ServiceNow connector.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Generate alerts for Anomaly Detection at Account level

technical teams need to be able to monitor the anomalies for their accounts, but the current setting for alert is generating additional "noise"
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 2 Future consideration

Rightsizing Table Change- More Columns

Add more columns to the rightsizing table from Tags & Labels and Business Dimensions. Feature should include objects in export.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Enhance TNC-P User Management and Active Directory Integration

Provide native user management capabilities within TNC-P and modernize Active Directory integration by utilizing OpenShift authentication services instead of the current WebSphere Application Server (WAS)-based implementation.
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Submitted

Expose AWS CUR lineItem.legalEntity Field

Request is to surface the AWS CUR field lineItem.legalEntity field within Cloudability as a standard, queryable dimension available for reporting, filtering, and allocation logic. This field identifies the legal entity responsible for the transact...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Planned for future release