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Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Display user name instead of login ID in DWC

We have our DWC and MDM integrated with Active Directory. Currently we are using a login ID for users to authenticate themselves, which is neither their email address or their proper name. Once logged into the DWC, they see this login ID instead o...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

User re-invitation feature is required in Instana SaaS

Currently, there's no re-invitation of User in Instana SaaS. The only way to re-invite specific user is to delete and create again. It's very very inconvenient for our Instana users when re-invitation is needed.
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Cloudability integration with Gen AI agents

Gen AI agents, combined with a Multi-Cloud Platform (MCP) server, are incredibly useful for FinOps because they enable proactive, automated, and intelligent cost management across complex cloud environments. Multiple personas will benefit from it ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 2 Planned for future release

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add support for Azure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Instana

Add observability capability to Dynamics 365 to extend visibility into workloads running on that Azure service. That would enable an end-to-end traces accessing that service. That capability would be useful for all customers that are using Dynamic...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Cloudability support Idle Load Balancer in Rightsizing service or in reporting

Today, there isn't a way to get this info of Idle load balancers in Cloudabiltiy the only way to do so, is by tagging resources in AWS to reflect in Cloudability.THis is not good for our organization' as we manage several AWS payer accounts with d...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Integration: Ability to retrieve Topology from Cisco DNA Center & Cisco Prime

Global Ford teams use Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime across their manufacturing sites to know location/relationships/performance/etc of all network related entities located within manufacturing plants. Due to no integration between CP4AIOps and ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration