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Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

ADM should recognize Daylight Savings

Currently in ADM, when we select a time period we have to select EDT (for eastern time zone). Now that we are in EST, when we set up a schedule or reference an older schedule we have to offset the time by an hour to represent the EST time as it is...
8 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Saved Views on Tabbed Reports

Recently saved views was introduced, but often breaks/does not save/displays errors on complex tabbed reports. Hard to explain to users which reports it might work on vs broken.
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
9 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Integrate Azure Keyvault to fetch secrets for Turbonomic deployed in Azure Kubernetes Services.

Currently, Credentials are mentioned in the plain text in Azure kubernetes cluster to connect to Azure MySQL database, AKS level created user. As a security measure, can Turbonomic application integrate with Azure keyvault to fetch credentials fro...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Last Modified Date and Sorting

When you sort by name in Policies page, the sorting goes kaput when you go to the next page. Would be nice to have more than 75 as the number of items per page. I would like to get the Last Modified Date as one of the columns for sorting. Again, t...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ability to create a threshold on Performance Metrics Widget

Other vendors like Riverbed, can display a red color alert on the graph when the metric axceed a specific threshold. So we expect to have the same on SevOne.
10 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted