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Budgets Data Log

Currently we need to raise an incident to IBM in order to see who updated the Budgets and when as we as admins do not have that view. This is time consuming for IBM and for us and sometimes when we do bulk uploads that can lead to data loss and a ...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: Deliver a single, Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom das...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
29 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

VPC flow logs for Cloud

I have 2 customers interested in VPC flow logs for both Azure & GCP. For GSP is was called out as a requirement
10 days ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Submitted

Add Flexera Technopedia integration

Required by Dec 2025 for Visa POC.
11 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Ability to Use Multiple “Device Metadata” Variable in a Report

While exploring Data Insight, we found only a single “Device Metadata” variable value could be used as a filter for each report. The ask is to allow multiple “Device Metadata” to be used in given report.
11 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Submitted

Enhanced Hover Interaction for "Roles and Permissions" and "Custom Fields" sections

Currently, in the Roles and Permissions and Custom Fields sections, the Edit and Delete icons are positioned on the far right of each field, making them difficult to click accurately especially when field names are short. This often results in use...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted