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Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Unique names for views

Hi Team, when creating views on the navigation pane, can a customer prevent duplicate naming, especially for common use views (like Team Backlog, for example). Are there any mashups or solutions that would help with that?
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Not under consideration

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Calculations where data from two clusters are needed

SLT (Service Level Target) calculation: First off, I appreciate IBM helping us on this as this use case is totally outside of the product capability/feature realm. We discussed SevOne Kafka, RNA/RIA options. For this use case, I am totally open fo...
7 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Needs more information

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view The Service must aggregate and retain KPI data for the purposes of reporting and service: One hour view with 1 min interval, with a data retention window (sliding) of 13 weeks Busy ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information