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Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review

CRI-O Container CPU Usage Percentage

ISBANK wants to retrieve and be able create custom events based on CRI-O Container's CPU usage percentage. For CRI-O Containers, would like to use "cpu.used_percentage" just like "memory.used_percentage". The "cpu.used_percentage" could be calcula...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Tanium Support

Need Tanium support for a client PoV.
6 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

Develop Container ROI Policy to track Container Optimizations

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, it's imperative to track & report on all savings achieved. We are currently unable to track any container optimization savings as there isn't an ROI policy available for Containers.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Email Distribution Enhancements

The email subscription feature has been very useful in report delivery since it's launch in November 2024. It would be very beneficial if we had the ability to set up subscriptions via AD groups, allowing the tenants or cloud program primes to add...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration