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Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
11 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Impact out of the box Netcool Impact MWM check completion flag needed

Suppressed alerts are falsely forwarded to upstream systems like event-automation as we cant explicitly filter out 'MWM Processed' alerts.
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Adjustable lookback period for rightsizing recommendations is required.

Currently only 2 options for lookback period are available: 1. 10 day 2. 30 day I want lookback period to be adjustable up to 90 days, as 90 days sufficiently account for the seasonality in workload utilisation.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
16 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration