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Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

In every list-based widget, show the number of rows visible vs the total rows in its data-set.

It's currently not possible to know how much data is in each widget. The metadata is the only that show page counts but, in that case, not how many rows per page.
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Option to disable the Daily emails on cost summary for across the Org

Hi Team, an option to disable the daily cloud cost summaries emails sent to users would be great, as customer has mentioned the email is irrelevant to the most stakeholders in the org, and currently we cannot disable the emails for other users, ev...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

Regarding the option to retrieve data in Pricing Currency instead of Billing Currency on Azure

When importing Azure cost data into Cloudability, the system currently uses the Billing Currency. However, it appears that Apptio BI uses the Pricing Currency instead. Because Cloudability relies on the Billing Currency, we must manually upload ex...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
9 months ago in Instana / Azure 2

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration