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Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Closed Project Codes non-selectable in Plans

This would be useful because Project Codes close during a fiscal year and need to be retained in reference data for the associated line items in the plan. However, if end users are unaware that a code has been closed, they can still plan expenses ...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
8 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Support for AWS Cost Categories

We currently have AWS cost categories in place and is extensively used to reflect our organisation structure, ownership and allocation for our costs. Rather than redoing this work via Business Mapping it would be great if Cloudability could import...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Turbonomic to support resource monitoring for IBM softwares delivered in virtual appliance form

IBM has a few software products that are delivered as virtual appliances. These services running in a VM deployed with a OVA template. Currently, Turbonomic evaluate them as a regular VM and may issue a resize actions based on the server metrics d...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted