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IT Planning IT Spend Waterfall Report Enhancement

As users of the built-in comparison reporting under the Planning -> Summary section of IT Planning, we'd like to request an enhancement to the 'IT Spend Waterfall' portion of the report where a user could click on the 'All Others' portion of th...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Cloud Pak for AIOps: Event suppression API for devices placed in maintenance and decommissioned through external tools

Event suppression workflow: Device placed in maintenance or decommissioned: Device placed in maintenance in external tool External tool workflow calls CP4Aiops REST API and passes the resource and time window (omit end-time if perpetual or unknown...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to specifically filter traces by values of "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time

As stated in the title, having the possibility to group and filter by "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time would be extremely helpful to troubleshoot if the network got worse etc.
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Ability Change the Timezone for the Event Viewer

Hello Team, We have a Global Networking Team that are looking at the events in the Eventviewer but they are being displayed in their local time. We have check the Node timezones and all are being set to UTC by default and We are assuming it is tak...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Deleting previous year dates from existing calenders

We have some calendars defined in TWS database.These calendars are updated each year for the new dates of each year.We need a feature to delete the old entries for those existing calendars.This is raised as agreed in PMR case no TS005053976
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

NcKL - Omnibus probe rules file support for IPv6

NcKL - Omnibus probe rulesdoes not support Ipv6 at the moment. Several entries like $MOI_Remote = extract($Message, "neighbor ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+) ") are in rules files and needs to accept also Ipv6 addresses. Today more and more equip...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add Instana built-in metric for table spaces status (normal or abnormal)

I would like Instana has a built-in metric for table spaces status, the return value represents normal or abnormal. After this built-in metric available, then I can trigger an alert based on this built-in metric. Here is db2 reference about table ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Indicate the reason for alert (e.g. instana-builtin, instana-custom-rule, etc.)

When an alert is fired, we never know its source. Would be great to have in the Alert itself an information of where it's coming from (smart alert, builtin, custom event, etc.)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration