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Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Add Native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Support for instana-agent-k8sensor in Instana Helm Chart

The Instana Helm chart for instana-agent-k8sensor currently does not support native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) configuration. During a recent incident (Case TS020011638), a memory usage spike occurred post-AMI update, reaching 140% of the co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Add usage data to DI. Both in the GUI and via API.

It would be very useful to know what reports are being used and by which users. Currently, I have no idea what the adoption level of SevOne is.
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Ability to verify the expiration date of the “update access keys” from the Hardware Management Console

This feature enables the verification of the expiration status of the “update access keys” within the Hardware Management Console. It ensures that administrators can monitor and prevent interrupted access to system updates and hardware management ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration