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Reports to be Accessed for NonCalculated Periods

End-users who do not have admin access should be able to access the reports even for closed time-periods otherwise the reports might not be helpful to them and each time an admin would have to intervene to keep changing the time-periods.
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Delivered

Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Delivered

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

telnet monitoring using synthetic check

Add a new feature for telnet monitoring using the synthetic check.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 7 Delivered

Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file

though the NCIM have cross-domain connections populated using cross-domain stitching. The ncp_dla does not fetch the cross-domain topology in the exported file. the cross-domain topology export is not implemented in ncp_dla.
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Make Component discovery of fabric extender consistent

For Cisco Nexus Fabric extenders(FEX) attached to Nexus N9K switches (even with recent firmware), sometimes fabric extender elements were not discovered and the chassis element was not discovered. on other hosts, only the chassis element but no fa...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Cancel a running data validation report

When a data validation report is executed, there is no option to either pause or cancel it. There have been times when a validation querying large set of data was kicked off unintentionally, and it takes more than 24 hours to complete. We are aski...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Delivered