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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...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...

Ability to configure incident resolution/closure/deletion time frame

Currently We see the default setting of 2min only in AIOps and there is no such option to configure incident resolution/closure/deletion time frame as per customer requirement. Incidents move from Resolved-->Closed --> deleted and alerts mov...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Increase Size limitation in Data Insight for GAAL Maap. User had to break up the maps to make the map working because of the size limitation.

User had an issue opening the GAAL maap and had to break up the maps to get it working.
8 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Needs more information

Can we add text blocks to Maps in DI (you can in reports as a widget, but not the Maps section)

User is having issues with viewing the maps would love to have this feature added in maps
8 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

1.dashboard to view prev plan details 2.In the dashboard, the original state of the job should show even if the status gets changed .( given ABEND - Confirm SUCC example )

Business people can see in dashboard on single screen.
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Add "Advanced" tab to Edit SNMP Object Type editor

Advanced mode of the Edit SNMP Object Type editor extends the capability of adding more attributes to the object during discovery. There is an idea already contributed where some of the OIDs polled may be used for metadata attributes but this Adva...
15 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...