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A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

Support/Status/View: Displays the status of all running applications, services, and microservices in a topology view, indicated by color codes (green/yellow/red). Selecting any node or application displays the connected and affected services. Righ...
6 months ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to show more decimal places

Hello, Cigna would like to raise an enhancement request to add the ability to increase decimal places beyond 2 within ApptioBI and/or Cloudability. Such as $0.0005.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add filters in Rightsizing ROI to separate Deleted/Terminated savings from Rightsizing-only savings

Currently, Rightsizing ROI shows combined savings from all optimization actions. Customers cannot distinguish between savings from rightsizing (downsize/resize) versus decommissioning (delete/terminate). This inflates the ROI picture and makes it ...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Anomaly Detection with Intelligent Application Capability

Today, Anomaly Detection alerts you when spend spikes or drops but all remediation is manual. This delay often means real money wasted before action is taken. By embedding workflows, Anomaly Detection can suggest and trigger corrective actions imm...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Intelligent Budget Reallocation & Forecast Adjustment in CFP

Right now, CFP only tells you when a team overspends but you have to fix it manually. Example: Finance sees that Marketing overspent budget by 10% in CFP. They must go into another system, reallocate budget, get approvals from Finance, and inform ...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted