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Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
21 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
21 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Sort field names in the Hide/Rename step of the Transform pipeline

The Hide/Rename step should either have an option to sort field name ascending or descending, or it should just auto sort ascending. When a long list of field names are hidden, it make sit challenging to scroll through to see if a specific field i...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Alert when trying to edit at the same time

Display an alert when someone attempts to edit something simultaneously with you. This helps prevent overwriting and losing content. E.g. Business mappings, visualisations...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Static visualisation

Enable the option for a static visualization, allowing the visualizations to retain data e.g. for the last 7 days, 30 days, or the past year, even when the date is changed.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Instana's Microsoft SQL Server sensor not supporting client-side tracing for PHP application for customer

Customer- SBM Limited has a PHP application instrumented with the Instana agent on CRM APP Server where database calls are not appearing in the Instana traces. SQL queries to mssql are missing. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0...
2 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Planned for future release

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration