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Ability to get status of Azure vendor credentials via the API

Currently there is no way for us to be alerted if a specific set of the vendor credentials stops working. We can only get alerted by email if the verification fails. We have had scenarios where the verification status will show verified but the Az...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
14 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
14 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Quick search for Alert Viewer

1.6.x Alert Viewer search bar does not support multiple search conditions. For example, user's will sometimes want to search for events with server name = 'xyz' that have summary text = 'something happened'. As of today, the search bar only accept...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Include Unusual Spend chart in the anomaly email notification

Currently, unusual spend is reported via email alert - but there is no daily spend and a visual of a cost spike available, unless one goes to Cloudability anomalies and clicks on alert detail. It will be very useful to have that anomaly chart incl...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

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...
28 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1

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