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Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

In IT Planning the client wants to see in one tab the ability to show labour activities and the financial outcomes without having to move between tabs

Because it means an easier UI experience for the user
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Save our filters so you can apply them easily when we changed dashboard/report/widget

Not possible at the moment and this is not planned soon. It is possible to use the URL to hard record part of the filters... But this is not an interesting solution.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Incident Viewer to display the Ticket Information (TicketNumber, TicketStatus) by allowing option to select itsm metadata fields of insights during creation of Incident View

Currently, the Incident View creation is limited to select fields such as title, alertId, owner,team etc. There is no option available to select the insight attributes columns especially for selecting ITSM metadata (Ticket info) To know about the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Can we get the sustainability metrics like CO2 emissions and power consumption in Kwh directly from Cloudability into TBM Studio as part of the existing cloudability connector (cldy_monthly_**) ?

Right now you are providing cloud sustainability API supported by the cost reporting endpoints, but once used, it will lead to another extra table with our Apptio model. Also, I see that these 2 sustainability metrices ( but with blank values) are...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Introduce Conditional and Adjacency-Aware Correlation with Path-Based Grouping Feature in AIOps Topology Correlation

The current correlation model in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps can sometimes over-group alerts by combining all downstream nodes connected to a common parent, even when the parent (anchor) node itself has no alert. This behavior can result in large, noi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0