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Add Support for Adaptive (Dynamic Baseline) Alerting in Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Currently, the Infrastructure Smart Alerts feature only supports static thresholding, even though the UI mentions “time-dependent” values. These thresholds do not adapt automatically to changes in system behavior over time. Instead, users must man...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

Use Selected Time Period to Populate AutoFill Lists in Filter on a report or dashboard

My understanding is that the last two months of data are used to populate the autofill values on the filter dimensions. For example, if I select Jan - Jun 2025 in the date selection and then add Month (Year) as a filter, the autofill options are 2...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
2 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
23 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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 ...

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information