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Use Selected Time Period to Populate AutoFill Lists in Filter on a report or dashboard

My understanding is that the last two months of data are used to populate the autofill values on the filter dimensions. For example, if I select Jan - Jun 2025 in the date selection and then add Month (Year) as a filter, the autofill options are 2...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 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...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Under review

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
3 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...
3 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 1

In Targetprocess (Apptio), the Number custom field type is limited to a precision of up to 2 decimal places. I want it should have a provision to expand it to 4 decimal places.

It will definitely help my Business users.
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Terraform Support for Turbonomic

Why is it useful? Enables customers to manage Turbonomic with policy-as-code capabilities Enables customers recreate policies in the event of a disaster within Turbonomic (redeploy capabilities) Enables customer to reduce risk following software d...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 3 Planned for future release

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 5

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration