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Show the model object identifier in a pop up window when hovering mouse cursor over the object

It would enable an easy review of the OID, preventing the need to click into and open the object itself, which often takes a long time depending on the size of the backing table. When reviewing model performance this has been an important activity...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Custom dashboard with more customization abilities

A customer is Hong Kong built their own custom dashboard on Instana. They request for the ability to edit the custom Dashboard's font size, bold, underline, color etc to facilitate their needs.
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

incident page does show assigned runbooks but it is not easy to access the runbook execution results

The incident page does show assigned runbooks and you can easily start such a runbook by clicking the offered "Run" button. But if the runbook has already been executed (especially when triggered automatically) there is not easy to access to the r...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metric display

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metrics such as Dropwizard metrics
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
9 months ago in Instana / Azure 3

Support of IBM ACE on Windows

Supporting IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on Windows for Monitoring Adding support for monitoring IBM ACE on Windows would greatly benefit development and QA teams who primarily use Windows environments during local testing and early-stage deplo...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration