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Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
14 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
3 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Add sound notification for Alert Viewer

Users were able to configure audible notifications in WebGUI's Event Viewer. Depending on event criteria, the event viewer would play a preset or custom sound alerting the user that a new or updated event has appeared. This functionality does not ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Product Feature Proposal: GCP DBaaS Support

Objective: Enhance IBM Turbonomic's capabilities to include automated optimization for GCP's PaaS database services, such as Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. Rationale: Diverse PaaS Database Offerings ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 7 Future consideration

add a action capability to run a javascript in RBA

please add action capability to RBA , so you can manipulate data/variables, in order to comply with a next action's input requirement the idea would be to allow for Javascript code to me added.ideally in a required format. and an expected output c...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review