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Increase Limit on number of decimal points for fields and custom fields

Working with AMEX here. They need to have at least six digits after the decimal point for the calculations to work out properly. Ideally, we would like to have it where we can set a number of digits after the decimal point for each field. The issu...
26 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
21 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

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

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

Postgres database synchronization with Cassandra Database to maintain sync between Primary NOI 1.6.x & Secondary NOI 1.6.x clusters automation policies.

Issue - Secondary cluster Postgres DB is not in sync with the cassandra database restored in secondary from primary cluster, causing the Primary & Secondary clusters event policies out of sync, showing 404-Error when launching the patterns on ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Custom Sharing Team Column Insufficient to See Full Team Name

The property pane for custom sharing has columns that are insufficient to see the full team name. As a result, it is difficult for users to select the right team in circumstances where the teams may share common prefixes. An example is below where...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

When splitting Features, the Agile Release Train and/or Team assigned to the original Feature being split should also be assigned to the new Feature created by Feature split

Today we have a Validation Rule in M&T's Targetprocess environment that keeps Features from being created without an ART and/or Team assigned. This is prohibiting users from being able to split Features that only have an ART assigned because t...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted