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One time assignment of default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We want to, as the FinOps team, to be able to assign default dashboard and view for users depending on their roles.
3 months ago in Cloudability 0 Future consideration

Ability to add CR (custom resource) with custom settings.

Reduce Manual actvity during Upgrade / DR / config updates
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Monitoring custom log files in AIX

We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release

Ability to open select lines on 'external financials' to make small edits (Admin Only)

We use the 'external financials' function heavily in our Planning environment, and we find it is very helpful in maintaining transparency and data quality control, as the lines cannot be edited by the user. We have ~87,000 lines of centrally agree...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Utilization metrics not appearing for Azure subscriptions

The Azure util data is not supported currently and hence the issue and we would like to know if you have planed a timeline to enable these for Azure Utilization metrics.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Functionality already exists

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Need Security in the TEPS to work in the same way that it does from the 3270 enhanced

Hello, We need to have commands (should be covered by takeaction security elements) that need to get executed under the ID of the person logged on (the resolved ID if using user mapping). However, we then need situations to be executed under the t...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Planned for future release