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Create a way to schedule or script the manual steps to refresh the source for Enriched Editable Tables

Enriched editable tables let us feed calculated data into the editable tables, however the data isn't able to update for new rows or overwritten data. A lookup in the script* can work when added/editing a row but if the source data changes after t...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

URL link field

We would like to a add a field which is a URL link to supporting documentation
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Make quick filters ignore relations in EventViewer

Suppose you have an event viewer with these events:* Alert 1 - severity 5* Alert 2 - Severity 4 * Alert 3 - Severity 5 Then we create a Quick Filter (in the top right corner of the event viewer) Severity = 5. Now the event viewer shows: * Alert 1 ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
10 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

The "Task" should be customizable in process defintion

As all other term in the process definiton the task should also be customizable. As all other workitems it should be possible to give it in a process another term. Now the term "Task" will be translated according to your language settings, which c...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review