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Allow for additional filter logic - combining attributes with OR as well as And.

In the current functionality, when filters are added, you cannot create logic that is (Account IDs = XXXX) OR (Account Names contain YYY). Not having the flexibility to combine data in this way results in creating additional business mappings that...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
17 days ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

Include- for Windows OS (Pagefile) utilization in your RAM sizing . Also in the Linux OS space (Swap usage) - "RAM sizing , stack-improvement"

When I review size down actions related to a VM running Windows OS / RAM usage I find that I disagree with some of those size down actions b/c they don't factor in Page file usage isn't factored into this decision . A hypothetical example of this ...

Topology REST API for the Service Now

We need to expose the Topology REST API for the Service Now team to consume. However, the authentication of the API is limited to HTTP Basic, and current the only available username/password pair is from a K8s secret. As confirm by this support ti...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Allow configuration of custom OIDC scopes in Instana SSO settings (e.g. entitlement_group)

Currently Instana’s OIDC integration only supports specifying the discovery URL. Instana always requests the default scopes (openid, profile, email). In our environment, critical authorization information (entitlement_group, authorization_group, s...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Under review

Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Under review

Dropdown for label filters in Container

Currently in label filters, customer needs to type out the values, the request is to give a dropdown of options to choose from and to also enable multi select in a single go rather than having multiple filters which support one value per dimension
21 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Incorporate Custom Field Constraints Mashup into UI Directly

The custom field constraints mashup provides really valuable functionality, but it's difficult and time-consuming to use and can be inflexible. It would be a great help if the constraints could be incorporated directly into field set up. I have ma...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review