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To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Provide Store and Forward Feature for Message Bus Gateway

Need the same capability as other Netcool/Omnibus gateways for the Message Bus Gateway to store and forward the event data when the targeted message bus is unavailable.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 4

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Provide container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter nodepools similar to what is provided for ASG nodes

Karpenter is becoming an industry standards, my customers want container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter node pools.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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