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Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Need OCI Pluggable Database costs in Cloudability

Pluggable Database costs are now available in the OCI CUR FIles, however, the costs are in a column named "attributed costs". Cloudability is not looking at this column and is missing the costs of Pluggable DBs.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Needs more information

Do not show already terminated resources in Cloudability Optimize → Rightsizing recommendations

Problem:Right now the resource 'state' is not available in any manner within the optimization rightsizing tooling. This means that resources, such as EC2 instances, that have already been shut down and terminated are still showing the recommendati...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Ability to display latest year/week on top of the drop down

As a Targetprocess user, I need the current Year/Week to appear at the top of the list so I can quickly apply a filter and view relevant records. At present, the most recent Year/Week appears at the bottom, which makes selection less efficient.
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Undo Feature

Adding undo step functionality would be super helpful!
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review