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Need to be able to send out reports in PDF/CSV by email

Dear Colleagues, we have a tender where customer is interested in sending regular reports from Instana to management with statuses and current numbers. We have ability to create custom dachboards and generate PDF/CSV of them, please consider addin...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Ability to have a reporting dimension for Azure - TERM - to create reports for reservations based on their term (1y -3y)

Currenty it it only possible to have the reservations term visibility using the commitment portfolio. The ask is to add a new dimension TERM, which will help users to categorize reseravtions based on their term (1 year or 3 year). We have tried cr...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Labour Actuals

We were wondering to request to  labor actuals in the same way we load cost actuals via spend management . At the moment the labour actuals can be overwritten or deleted in error by users. Having this option would lock the actuals for labour ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4 Future consideration

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release