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Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Excel import with dynamic worksheet names

Currently, there are two options for designating which worksheet should be loaded in the import step: No name specified and first worksheet is loaded A fixed worksheet name is specified and cannot be changed It would be amazing to add an option ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Search in Event viewer under 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' doesn't search for the element if within correlated group

When we search in the Event viewer 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' view, the search doesn't work. If the element is part of a correlated group, search doesn't work to identify the group or element. We have to then default the view and search on the flat vie...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

In Rightsizing ROI, add capability to add business dimensions to rightsizing filters.

Currently in Optimization > Rightsizing ROI, the existing [+ Add Filter] menu lists a very limited set of dimensions for use.Filters do not match those available in Optimization > Rightsizing
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Need ability to properly discover device links when ifStack mib not enabled on device

We need the ability to get correct link information between devices in our environment
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Dynamic navigation option from a table - links to specific reports depending on table row contents

Looking for a way of providing user dynamic and tailorable navigation to specific use case reports from a single source.  In this case to get to use cases for specific Service Names in the service taxonomy - potentially a report per Service N...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Future consideration

Add device move endpoint to REST APIv3

Adding a REST API endpoint would enable us to re-balance the devices across peers automatically. Sometimes, new objects are discovered pushing peers close to the object limit per peer same goes for the number of indicators per second. A script cou...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration