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Limit Exposure of Business Mappings

Some Business Mapping steps are intermediary and are used to create data subsets that are included or excluded in other final business mappings to help with logic challenges or re-usabiity (include vs anti). These intermediary Business Mappings id...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Off button for log entry

Customers want to have control to stop log intake in case they are approaching the maximum log intake purchased. To date, there is no mechanism to stop logs from being sent to Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

AWS lambda action plug-in

Allow Workload Automation to trigger an AWS Lambda action as a result of an event - rather than AWS Lambda type job, which is currently available in the product.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Bring ITNM Topology Collections to AIOps

We are currently not sending ITNM Topology collections to AIOps, which is hindering some correlations due to the lack of the necessary collections in AIOps.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted