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The alerts priority in an AIOPs incident (hence the root cause) should change as there are more alerts received after the incidents has been created.

In practice, events may still come after the Incident has been created, and the priority has been assigned. The later alerts might be the root cause. So the Incidents prioritisation and root cause analysis should be triggered as there are more ale...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses For example, suppose there are 3,000 EC2 virtual machines in one AWS account. In that case, under the current Turbonomic structure, 3,000 machines (3,000 licenses) are required on an MVS ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Needs more information

Turbonomic support for Management Group scope Reservations (Azure)

As a Cloud Administrator, I would like Turbonomic Actions to consider my Reserved Instances scoped to my Management Groups in Azure so I can ensure that the actions being recommended by Turbonomic will not scale out of an RI. Azure RI’s can be app...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 2 Not under consideration

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration

Expose View Details to Non Admins

We would like our end users to have visibility into how a View is created, but without giving them rights to create/edit views. This will empower them to fully understand how a view is defined. We should give read-only access to View tab to non-ad...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration