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Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Under review

Apptio BI Report/dashboard to be used as the default Landing page for Cloudability

Hi team, As the customer is extensively using Apptio BI reports , the idea is to have a BI report as a default landing page instead of Cldy Dashboards. The customer team is working on shifting (to) and enabling the BI feature to wider teams and ha...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Under review

Support zLinux for Instana distributed OpenTelemetry collector

We want to collect logs with OpenTelemetry collector. Because of the support perspective, we want to use Instana Distribution of Opentelemetry Collector (IDOT) . But our system is running on zLinux (SUSE) and IDOC does not cover zLinux. Could you ...
14 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
5 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Under review

It is necesary that the new Time Tracking solution will be integrated to the new Traditional Project solution.

Time tracking, spend of work hours and services hours are critical to track progress and cost for Traditional Projects. So, as Project Task entity should be a work item just as User Stories or Features, they must admit to register hours inside. Th...
14 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Under review

More than one possible date range on the layover chart

Currently, it is only possible to have one type of range in the layout, which is in the first layer. When we add more than one layer, we cannot add a different range. For example, if I am in a column of daily expenses, and I would like to enter th...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Request to Include Cisco ACI in Turbonomic Integration Support

Dear Turbonomic Product Team, We have received strong interest from one of our enterprise customers in expanding their adoption of IBM Turbonomic across their hybrid infrastructure. However, a key blocker they are facing is the lack of native inte...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review