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RunBook Automation - Scheduling Utility

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it will allow for runbooks to be executed on a timed basis from within the tool Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase the inbuilt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Modify or Clone / Duplicate "builtin event"

The built event work in most of the cases but for some specific environment some values need to be adjust in order to avoid false positive. Instead of disabling the builtint and create a new one from scratch it would be nice to have a "clone fonct...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

MFT: Current Transfers should show source and destination file

We would like to have both the source file AND destination file on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard in the 'Current Transfers' section. Currently the 'Current Transfers' table in the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' das...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Re-Implement the Gauge Chart

Currently, Gauge Chart is not supported in R12. It would be great to Re-Implement the Gauge Chart which gives a way to quickly see how well a actual is performing against a target.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Is a defect

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Filter/sort user-created groups by creator and create date

Groups can get unmanageable very quickly. Allowing users to be able to see the following fields would be incredibly helpful for maintenance and operations: Creator Created date Last modified Last modified by Please also allow sorting and filtratio...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration