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Enable Alerting on Business Metrics in Instana

Instana currently supports the ingestion of business metrics via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), which is a powerful way to correlate application performance with business outcomes. However, there is no native mechanism to create alerts based on these busin...
7 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Please provide support for Nexus 10.3 OS since 9.x firmware has become obsolete.

Would benefit all to backup configuration of switches which may be key and integral to processes.
7 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Automatic disable scheduled runs of datalink during maintenance/release upgrade

If a datalink run is started during maintenance it can result in tables being in use in Apptio CT and failed runs in datalink
14 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

We would like to see labels / annotations at a pod-level instead of a cluster-level via report or API

Our internal team tags their Kubernetes clusters at a pod level because they track their client's usage via pods since it's more granular. However, right now Cloudability reports and API pulls only give us access to cluster level labels & anno...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs and reports over-provisioning and rightsizing recommendations

What We Need A Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs usage and tells us when we're paying for more capacity than we need (or when we're about to hit limits). Since tier and capacity are set at the namespace level, we need rightsizing...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Amortization Schedule in Editable Table

When entering data in an editable table for a cost Item that needs to be spread out for time period duration it would be really helpful if the user can just check a box as is done in planning the cost can be amortized for the specific time. This w...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support Grafana as a target for Turbonomic for observability/apm

Customer uses Grafana and would like support for it as a target configuration!
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

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