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Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Launch Date for EBS Snapshots

This will help the customers to sort and action of the EBS Snapshots which are present for a long time.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Team Iteration Column Header Adjustment

Out of the box, the column header for Team Iterations is configured in a way that is confusing to most companies/teams/users -- details are currently based on Assigned Effort and Velocity (total effort completed), but they should be based on Assig...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 3 Not under consideration

The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Enable system logs towards syslog destination option

Currently RIA has an option located at Settings> System Configuration >Syslog destination but is not used for generating compliance and authentication logs towards a SIEM (Security Information Event Management) Can this feature include user ...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Resource Inventory feature missing for both OCI and GCP

Resource Inventory feature missing for both OCI and GCP. After AWS, we have significant cloud spend over OCI and GCP
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 6 Not under consideration

Automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM

We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/support/pages...
8 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Custom time range to schedule an instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
4 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration