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FX Rate Automation

Integrate FX Rate Automation into Multi Currency - giving Administrators the opportunity to utilize an automated end of month or average rate to convert into their preferred currency.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Device Manager Alerting exclude option

By default all alert types are shown. Sometimes you only want to exclude certain types such as Debug. Instead the only way is to have to select every available option. NMS provides a better way of doing this using a tick option - by default everyt...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Report Linking "excludes" operator

DI Report Linking only provides the "includes" operator. Require the "excludes" option. We have reports that need to be excluded for specific cases but enabled for all.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pre-Purchase Plan

It is a different kind of commitment that should also be visible in Cloudability.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Build a dedicated topology observer for Solarwinds

Some customers of us (like ENI, ENEL, ...) have Solarwinds as network management tool and it would fine having the related observer to import the topology from it into the WAIOps platform they have installed like we do for other similar tools from...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AI assisted documentation writing

It would be great to have a document editor with an LLM chat side by side to create product documentation, use case descriptions, ... The user and the LLM can change the document contents and the workflow may be as follows: The user pasts a templa...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

AI Chat with all entities in tenant

The idea is a chat window where one can filter specific entity types, projects, timespans of entity creation/completion/... and then chat with that dataset. This would allow us to use the wealth of knowledge which is buried in TP to quickly find s...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Search 1 Future consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Quick Add - hide entities based on the role permissions

Users who don't have role permissions to add entities still see the whole list - the idea is to hide the entities that they can not add from Quick Add form.
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration