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Discover devices with DHCP configuration

Hi Team, Devices with DHCP configurations pose challenges for availability monitoring due to their dynamic IP addresses. Without a mechanism to track these devices effectively, UFM may lose visibility or fail to maintain consistent monitoring when...
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Needs more information

Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
4 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Monitoring custom log files in AIX

We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release

Ability to import 'external financials' for "Labour" and "Assets" tabs in the "Planned" section, just like "Other" tab

We complete a large amount of centralised loads of data for forecasting purposes into "Other" tab, and it allows for greater transparency and control of data quality as these lines are locked for editing by a user. Unfortunately, the same function...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Not under consideration

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Portfolio

The commitment portfolio functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Feature Enhancement Request: Turbonomic vCore Optimization Visibility

Proposed Enhancement Enhance the Turbonomic UI and reporting tools to include: vCore Delta Metrics Show the number of vCores added or removed per optimization action. Include timestamps and affected VM identifiers. Historical Tracking Maintain a l...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Feature Enhancement Request: VM Extension-Based Filtering, Search, and Grouping

Benefits Operational Efficiency: Quickly identify and remediate VMs with missing or failed extensions. Compliance & Monitoring: Ensure all VMs meet required extension configurations. Automation Support: Enable scripting and automation based on...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review