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Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
7 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Bring ITNM Topology Collections to AIOps

We are currently not sending ITNM Topology collections to AIOps, which is hindering some correlations due to the lack of the necessary collections in AIOps.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Restricting access to Turbo platform

Due to security requirements, the customer has requested to block any user from accessing the Turbo SaaS platform from IP addresses other than those they specify. In customer's other systems, IP whitelisting is implemented through the instance’s f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Collapsible bottom panel on Incident > Affected Resources tab

In an Incident, the Affected Resources tab has a bottom panel which is not collapsible and leaves very little room to examine the topology graph.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Only display full day of information in charts

Often the most recent day has a tendency to look like a reduction when you do not have the full days' worth of data in the tool. The ability to remove the last day or set charts to -1 day would help reduce confusion with end users
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

To Exports Targets from Targets section

This would be useful as all other exports that are used for cost board packs for ex co come from Apptio Planning barr the targets as you cannot export them.
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration