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Option to run a Multiple Action Runbook Manually with just one click instead of clicking on "run next" and "Run" Multiple Times

Currently while manually running the Runbook the end user/Operator/NOC has to fill in the required parameters for the run book to run and run each action manually. Let's say the Runbook has 10 Action steps, the user has to click on 20 buttons, 10 ...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

IDOT release needed on kubernetes/OpenShift for OpenTelemetry support

One of our customers is attempting to transition their monitoring from a typical Instana deployment to a pure OTEL solution. They would like a fully supported solution rather than leveraging open source OTEL collectors. Today, we have IDOT collect...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Parking policies - Needs the ability to show the selected Accounts and Resource Groups when going into Edit

When a Parking policy has been created and a user wants to go in and edit the policy, or even check what has been selected, if there are any significant numbers of accounts or resource groups then it is a laborious task to have to search through t...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Delivered

Saving Templates and Sharing Filters for Resource Inventory

USCIS customers find resource inventory useful but must recreate all filters each time they access this section. They would like the ability to save filter configurations as templates and share them with other users in their organization, similar ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Delivered

Exclude previous day in day granularity reporting (Relevant to: Cldy, Apptio BI, and CFP)

Cloud Service Provider billing data is rarely dependable unless it is 24 to 36 hours old. This is because lots of processing happens within 24-36 hours in the past and the amounts for the previous day are consistently incorrect. Customers who I ha...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 6 Delivered

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics. To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of trending ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Delivered

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Process to clean up old entities from active devices

Once a device is discovered bu ITNM, it creates many entities in NCIM database, representing the device, interfaces etc. If any of those entities are not valid anymore (e.g., one of the interfaces is disabled), it is not deleted from the database....
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Support for Python in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Python, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
10 months ago in Instana / Python / Sensor / Tracing 0 Delivered

Support for PHP in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PHP, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
10 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 1 Delivered