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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

Enhanced Report Export for AWS Commitment Recommendations

We are currently working on AWS commitment recommendations and have encountered a limitation in the report export functionality. Specifically, when exporting reports from Cloudability, the output includes all instances available for reservations w...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

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

Requesting functionality to prevent the complete loss of data for IEN Calc object values in the event of data timeliness issues with member objects.

IEN CALC objects having frequent gaps in CDN calc objects 1. Alerting not reliable.2. the ability to "true up" the calc object values if member object data is delayed.3..the ability to see aggregate traffic values for remaining objects within the ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance the cloud file ingress Datalink connector to support importing parquet files from AWS.

Enhancing the cloud file ingress connector to support parquet format would bring it closer to the level of functionality companies had with the multicloud connector in Datalink (Classic). The multicloud connector supported parquet format and many ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Planned for future release

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...
12 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 ...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration