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Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Include Unusual Spend chart in the anomaly email notification

Currently, unusual spend is reported via email alert - but there is no daily spend and a visual of a cost spike available, unless one goes to Cloudability anomalies and clicks on alert detail. It will be very useful to have that anomaly chart incl...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Increase Limit on number of decimal points for fields and custom fields

Working with AMEX here. They need to have at least six digits after the decimal point for the calculations to work out properly. Ideally, we would like to have it where we can set a number of digits after the decimal point for each field. The issu...
20 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0

Please include Custom date range in the custom metric timeline

Currently the custom metric in apptioBI has only standard timelines like : "this week", "last week", etc.. and the only option of customization is inherit date from visualization, but when we use multiple custom metrics in the report for different...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Cost Management Support for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Context: Cloudability currently provides dedicated cost visibility and allocation capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). This includes workload-level attribution across clusters, namespaces, deployments, and labels, enabling cus...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
6 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted