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Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Event ID in the subject line

Description: At present, Instana alert emails display the Event ID (currently alphanumeric) only in the email body. For operational efficiency, we need the Event ID to also appear in the email subject line. Current Behavior: Event ID is alphanumer...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Turbonomic could be enhanced with predictions based on trends and seasonal effects

Currently Turbonomic bases its recommendations/actions on historical data, you can select which previous period to consider, looking at long-term utilitization or short-term utilization to base the actions on. There probably is a limited period ov...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0

Be able to sort lists/views etc on the left hand pane

It would be useful to be able to sort items on the left hand pane by alpha order or create date, creator, etc.. This should be able to be done on the main level or within a folder. This would make it easier to find items in the left hand pane sprawl.
24 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Not under consideration

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Enable tag-based filtering to pre-snooze rightsizing recommendations directly in the Cloudability UI

The API currently supports filtering (pre-snoozing) rightsizing recommendations by tags, but this functionality is missing from the UI. Adding this feature would allow users to filter (pre-snooze) recommendations directly in the interface without ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
3 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists