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Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
6 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Apply a filter on "Estimate" widget

As a Finops I would like to be able to apply a filter to my widget, to exclude taxes for example. It would be relevant because a lot of companies doesn't have to pay taxes and doesn't want to track them.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
7 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Quick search for Alert Viewer

1.6.x Alert Viewer search bar does not support multiple search conditions. For example, user's will sometimes want to search for events with server name = 'xyz' that have summary text = 'something happened'. As of today, the search bar only accept...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

Reporting of Cloudability User Metrics for Administrators

As an Administrator of our Cloudability/ApptioBI system I have a requirement to report on my colleagues overall usage of your products to my management. Namely: Cloudability, ApptioBI, and (limited) TBM/Apptio One. This could be console access, vi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

We want the ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data. For example: We want to store only 7 days of data, and free up EBS space on 8th day.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Number of months until x date

The idea would be to have a dynamic counter, to make some advanced calculated metrics. The example is the running rate that needs to be achieved until the end of the contract.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration