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Add Instana API for application event and log messges

We have clients need to get useful info from Instana API, currently there is no API for Application -> Log Message and Application -> Error Message, can you please help to add those APIs?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 2 Future consideration

The UI needs to handle failed Administrative Data Tasks.

It is quite common for an administrative task that leverages Kafka to timeout and fail. Leaving the task in a hung up condition. The present procedure to clear these issues is running 2 or 3 calls to swagger to clear the condition. These calls are...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Budget Alerts - Continued Alerting

Ability to keep getting alerting, even after you hit threshold. Allow for continued notification, past the current 2 options of Expect to Exceed and Exceeded. AWS portal allows for notification for multi % over a set budget. So if I have $1K budge...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Data Insight needs added functionality so that when a widget is taking and excessively long time to load and thus delaying the rest of the report to complete, the UI should present function to the user to halt that specific widget

User notes this function already exists in Grafana, added function would all Customer to determine problems with Report loading when they are building reports. Issue manifest most notably when building reports in their staging environment are move...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Change default to "off" under Preferences for Cloud Spend Summary Emails

Users (Executives) receive "all in" emails and causes more questions, since filters aren't setup properly to exclude certain Sellers. There isn't much control over the User onboarding process from an administrative standpoint. The only way to edit...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Data Insight Variables - Wildcard Search

DI Report consumers would save time and effort when navigating a complex dropdown list in a Variable. Today, we can do simple text match searches, but if there are many matches, we still end up scrolling a searching by eye. Providing a wildcard se...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
about 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration