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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

Subscribe to Multiple Views for Cloud Spend Summary Emails Notification

Currently, Cloud Spend Summary Emails notification is limited only available for a Single Default View. However, as platform/business owners, we are managing multiple applications which managed through different customized Views. It would be great...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Add CANC P status to dropdown for event rule monitoring Job Stream change of status

Our staff were somewhat surprised by the CANC P status because we really have no collective memory of encountering that before. It would be probably more truthful to say the status was overlooked, assuming that it had been cancelled, but nobody co...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Not under consideration