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Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Future consideration

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Option to provide description or details to the newly created dimensions

Hi Team, In the cloudabiloty reports the out of the box dimensions have the "?" next to each of them that provides the details of that particular dimension. Similar to which please help us by providing an option to enter the descriptin for the dim...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use Cloudability Views with Anomaly detection - for end users

As the customer have multiple end users where users login with restricted access using views. In a lot of cases, users are unable to see any anomaly but the Admin users are able to see anomalies (without applying any view). The issue - for end use...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

64-bit integer for Serial Number for an objectserver

It will be helpful in production environment, when we reset the objectserver and with same serial/serverserial the alerts will be getting overwritten in the reporter db, by this we will be loosing the alerts with the same serial number in the repo...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Permit defining default width of table fields in Ad Hoc Component Configuration

As a TBMA, I would like greater control over defining the column width of fields I add to a table and have the width persist when time options (eg Months Year to Date, Current Month, Year to Date) and/or other fields are added as row/column fields...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Add a column on the "List of Virtual Macines" view to show the hostname of the host where each VM is running on

This is particular important for on-premise environment where we need to see the VM-to-Host mapping (true for both VMWare and Power VM)
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration