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Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state Instana Zendesk Ticket support for more details - Request #32621
almost 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Migration for IMS Observer to cloud version of ASM running on NOI 1.6.3 OCP platform.

Currently we are having the IMS Observer non cloud version.Migration for IMS Observer to cloud version of ASM running on NOI 1.6.3 OCP platform.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Interactive Benchmarking: Do not allow Minimum < $0

As a Service Owner or TBM Analyst, I'd like for the Benchmarking Minimums to always be > $0.  This will enable more meaningful conversations about cost efficiency - and foster trust in the Apptio tool. -When an Infrastructure IT Sub-Tower ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

Add grouping filter to filter VMs by Storage Used/Prov

VM grouping has filters for groups by CPU or Memory sizing, would like the same filtering capability using Storage Used and Storage Provisioned metrics.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration