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Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Story(Incident) in UI should be able to suggest recommendation based on selected Alerts by Generative AI(WatsonX)

The Key use case of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, “AI Manager” is Proactive Incident Detect & Diagnose by leveraging AI(ML) technology. Story(Incident) in UI at current version, 3.7.x of AI Manager suggests top 3 Alerts which are related to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow custom events be created for IBM MQ MFT Agent status

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Agent Status is not available as a metric to create a custom event. Out of the box events can't be adjusted per customers requriement. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Agent status when they are in...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

As a SevOne Admin, I want ability to mask anomalies so my capacity planning reports are accurate

Opening on behalf of Keith Noah with Visa. Looking for the ability to 'ignore' or throw out data values collected which are anomalies/outliers. The example being a high counter value jump leading to a data spike. See: S1NPM-95784
2 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Needs more information

can mass upload be disconnected from cost object permissions ?

People who are able to edit cost Centers can also perform mass upload. During mass upload, if wrong option selected not intended Cost Centers can be overwritten.Would it be possible to disconnect mass upload: Import: Contracts, Import: Financials,...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Go to next/previous windows timerange

Hello, currently in Instana, we can select a predefined timerange (last 30min, last 1h, yesterday, etc.) or we can customize the timerange with year, month, day, hour, minutes. Once we have this selected, there is no option to automaticaly go to n...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Limiting Tables to Top X Amount of Rows

Hi Team, I had originally reached out via Apptio Community, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request: https://community.apptio.com/question/limiting-tables-to-top-x-amount-of-rows#1e0db23b-4549-4c63-a2a0-018e2f23f44f We ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration