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Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Include date fields in the Bulk Edit screen

It is possible to edit fields in bulk in TargetProcess by selecting multiple entities (shift-click) and hitting "Edit 00 items". However, date fields (like Planned Start Date) are not editable through this screen. The date fields should be editabl...
22 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
15 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Allow for more options on exporting data via SDP.

Right now data exported to kafka is sent as one message per indicator. This means that if an object has 25 indicators, it is 25 different messages, and it's a waste of space in terms of all the header data that is replicated. This means that for l...
5 days ago in SevOne / Other 2 Future consideration

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Please include Custom date range in the custom metric timeline

Currently the custom metric in apptioBI has only standard timelines like : "this week", "last week", etc.. and the only option of customization is inherit date from visualization, but when we use multiple custom metrics in the report for different...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relations tab

Amex would like to remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relationships tab, only keep the tab for viewing relations.
23 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Future consideration