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Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
8 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Totals, sub-totals, summaries for cards on views

Calculate and show totals, subtotals across filtered cards Show totals for columns in list views (in headers or footers) Show totals for cells, for column/row headers in board views Use them to summarize total effort, time spent/remain, co...
over 5 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Is a defect

Rightsizing opportunities for Azure Recovery Services

Customer would like to request the addition of rightsizing optimisation capabilities for Azure Recovery Services (ASR). This feature would allow customers to automatically evaluate and recommend optimal virtual machine (VM) sizes and configuration...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ability for Cloudability to support more than one currency per environment

Currently, Cloudability supports multi-currency for customers if they need to convert all cost to one single currency, but there's no ability to toggle between multiple currencies. This is a struggle for customers with users in multiple countries ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

See totals at the bottom of a report

See totals at the bottom of a report
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Increase number of rows available in a report

Increase number of rows available in a report
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration