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All historical updates must be retained on entities

Historical updates are not retained for each update unless the updated field is entity state The update is not retained unless 5 minute is passed after the update is made, the idea here is to change the behavior to retain all udpates made on the s...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Targets KPI Section in ITP - Multiyear view, add/custom columns, filter capabilities

Targets KPI Section in ITP - As Administrators, we would like to be able to view multiyear target data. Also, the feasibility to add columns in the Target plan and the ability to filter column data by year, region and cost center. Update** 1/10/25...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Instana Auto Incident Closure

The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Monitoring Multiple Vcenters using single instana agent VM

Dear IBM, I am facing issue to monitor 5 Vcenters of my client with single instana agent, Vcenters Credentials i added in the configuration.yaml file but every time it takes last Vcenter to Instana UI. I used different approaches in the yaml as we...
4 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba - No Filtration properties available on subscribing to Event Notifiation

Probe - nco_p_huawei_u2000_corbaUnlike other CORBA probes where we have the option of filtering the alarms while subscribing to the real time alarms/Notification IRP services. nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba doesn't provide any options/properties to subs...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Ability to see Container K8s labels along with other tags and labels in Resource Inventory

When looking at the utilization of resources it is useful to know what applications are running against that infrastructure. Including the K8s labels in the data would be helpful in assessing the use of the resources.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Make TPU and GPU information from GCP available in reporting

Customers would like to see the size and memory capacity of their TPUs and GPUs. Understanding cost footprint associated with TPU and GPU sizes and capabilities is important for optimization and planning for the future.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Future consideration