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Add subgroups to Object Groups.

Object Groups are too flat. It would be nice to have sub-group for object groups. They would be populated by the same type of rules used for object groups except the source would be the parent group instead of a device group. A DI report that has ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enable tag-based filtering to pre-snooze rightsizing recommendations directly in the Cloudability UI

The API currently supports filtering (pre-snoozing) rightsizing recommendations by tags, but this functionality is missing from the UI. Adding this feature would allow users to filter (pre-snooze) recommendations directly in the interface without ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 1 Future consideration

View/Edit anomaly detection - alert notifications centrally

Currently, the Cloudability console does not provide visibility into who has configured Anomaly Alerts Notifications. As the FinOps team, gaining insight into which users have enabled these alerts—along with the associated thresholds and the views...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
9 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration