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Make results for service not in use in selected timerframe visible in analytic/API

We noted that the Applications dashboard in Instana displays the metrics (calls, latency, etc.) for each service, including those with no calls, regardless of the time window. However, when querying services in Analytics in Instana, services that ...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Under review

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files vs only having it send to January and replacing monthly files. When loading files from ITP to CT would like the flexibility to have it drop in different months. For example Jan – drop...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
almost 6 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

JSON functions for rules file processing

The recently published OMNIbus 8.1.0 FP24 containes a new set of JSON processing ObjectServer SQL functions named json_prop_get, json_prop_set, and json_prop_dedup. This is great news! We'd highly appreciate having similar functions available in r...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 3 Functionality already exists

AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Capability to draw the Layered topology

From stc(Telco) perspective, we need to have a layered topology plotting capability. For example, they want to see the Layer-1, 2 & 3 topology nodes in the begining, then they want the logical connectivity getting super imposed on top of this....
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page. Currently this is not the case and you have to go 3-4 clicks to reach the GIS Map view, either using a topology dashboard or viewer or from an alarm event viewer page.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enable custom arguments (e.g. -C) for ud32 and allow running Tuxedo sensor scripts as application user

The current Tuxedo sensor implementation does not support passing custom arguments to ud32 (such as -C <client>), nor does it allow executing shell scripts (e.g. tuxedoShell.sh) as a specific OS-level application user. This causes problems i...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration