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Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Updating monthly amounts in the Forecast

When you hit the pencil to edit a forecast and then type your information into the month you want to change, the total doesnt change until after you close out. Can it instead update immediately so that you can see your new total. This is especiall...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Quarterly forecasts should not auto calculate unless you physically put a new number in that field

If you put different dollar amounts in Jul, Aug and Sep but then accidentally click in the Q3 cell, it automatically totals those three months and then peanut butter spreads the average erasing your custom amounts! This function should only work i...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
15 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Include more Cloud Services for Sustainability Reporting

Hi, currently, IBM Turbonomic provides sustainability reporting based on virtual machines (VMs). However, since the customer utilizes a wide range of cloud services across different cloud platform, it would be beneficial to extend the Sustainabili...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Under review

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
15 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Display Account ID and Region Columns in Anomaly Detection List

Customer Feedback: Currently, the Anomaly Detection list only includes the account name. The customer requests that the Account ID be displayed in the list to make it easier to identify accounts when multiple payer accounts are registered. They fo...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

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...
15 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...
16 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration