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Enable MSP Control Over Sample Dashboards During User Creation

In MSP and reseller environments, MSPs often manage AWS reservations and savings plans on behalf of their customers. Currently, the EC2 reservation sample dashboard is enabled by default for all newly created users at the customer level and cannot...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 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...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

more nuanced anomaly detection report

similar functionality to aws cost explorer. edit time range, more details around cost spikes by services, ability to drill down.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Subscribe to get Rightsizing reports via email

Proactive alerts to highlight optimization opportunities are more effective in some customers than a self service model. Customers want to be able to subscribe to rightsizing opportunities within their area of responsibility. This functionality co...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Pacemaker Sensor

Pacemaker is essential to ensure true high availability (HA) of your services. Pacemaker Monitoring Objective:Monitor health of the cluster (nodes, quorum, resources, fencing)Measure health of the managed services (e.g. virtual IPs, web services, ...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Parking feature support for ARO clusters

Parking feature support for ARO clusters: currently, it is only included in the roadmap for AKS clusters. Bradesco is one of the largest banks in Brazil, and Azure is their main cloud service provider, with many applications running on ARO clusters.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to use custom LDAP libraries or modify LDAP search parameters

When it comes to security, a robust authentication setup is key. In this regard, the way is implemented in production environments may lead to use non-standard settings or mixing different approaches to suit operation's needs. The request is to ei...
3 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 4 Future consideration