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Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
16 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Display Account ID and Region Columns in Anomaly Detection List

Customer Feedback: Currently, the Anomaly Detection list only includes the account name. The customer requests that the Account ID be displayed in the list to make it easier to identify accounts when multiple payer accounts are registered. They fo...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Ability to get status of Azure vendor credentials via the API

Currently there is no way for us to be alerted if a specific set of the vendor credentials stops working. We can only get alerted by email if the verification fails. We have had scenarios where the verification status will show verified but the Az...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
16 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
17 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
24 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...

Support Action Generation for GCP Managed Instance Groups (MIGs) in Turbonomic

Currently, Turbonomic does not generate actions for virtual machines (VMs) that are part of a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Managed Instance Group (MIG), unless a specific probe property is manually enabled (gcp.mig.vm.action.enabled). Even when ena...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 9

Ability to export Activity data to DB2

In the IBM AIOps solution, activities (somewhat equivalent to a journal in Netcool) cannot be exported to DB2 or another relational database. Expected Behavior: There should be the ability to export Activity data to DB2 to enable querying, auditin...
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted