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Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Change default to "off" under Preferences for Cloud Spend Summary Emails

Users (Executives) receive "all in" emails and causes more questions, since filters aren't setup properly to exclude certain Sellers. There isn't much control over the User onboarding process from an administrative standpoint. The only way to edit...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

IWS Installation with sedmgr -m all

Hello, We were getting troubles installing IWS 9.5 FP07 agent on a AIX OS LPAR using the sedmgr -m all settings on. The keytool and java binaries included in the IWS package install won't work if we didn't make them a sedmgr exception before they ...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

"Last Uploaded" date

As per the design behaviour, the "Upload" step shows upload times in GMT-7:00 (PST) timezone and not in the Customers local timezone (see attached screenshot). This is in our opinion misleading and confusing. Apptio is requested to change this so ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

DASH, JazzSM: TreeTableWidget should NOT collapse after refresh

This idea refers to TS016394284. Ticket contains additional information and video showing the issue. TreeTableWidget can be used to show tree data in a good way. You can browse through the tree and select lines.One big problem is that the tree col...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration