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Datalink: Show destination time period and add filters in main report

Add a column to show destination time period: It would be helpful especially at year end if we could see the Destination time frame. Annually we have to check each datalink (or maintain a separate list) of the tables that load to the first period ...
23 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
23 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Update BIOS in OVA distribution from legacy BIOS to EUFI

Current BIOS in Rocky Linux OVA is legacy BIOS. Customer is requesting an EUFI BIOS image.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 5 Future consideration

Request for Trace Log Functionality

With the current product capabilities, it is not possible to capture logs of user actions. Since operation logs for various configuration changes are not available, it is impossible to identify, for example, who created a business mapping or when ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Enable Directional Control (Outbound/Inbound) for “Related” Relations in Integrations

Currently, in Apptio Targetprocess integrations (e.g., ADO ↔ ATP), when using “Related” as the relation type between entities (such as Feature, User Story, and Team PI Objective), the relationship is automatically displayed as both Inbound and Out...
16 days ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Future consideration

Have ability to add generic email to subscriptions (same applies to Anomaly emails and ApptioBI reports)

Currently, as a user I can only subscribe myself to a report, usign the email that my account is associated with.I want to be able to subscribe a generic mail list (e.g. cloud-services@synamedia.com) to a report. This functionality ensure that the...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
16 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review