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Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

New collector development required to discover from NMS - ABB Hitachi

A new collector is required to fetch topology data from ABB Hitachi. Vendor: ABB Hitachi Name: FOXMAN UN R9C Technology: DVM Protocol: SFTP
1 day ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Functionality to export,edit,import IWS Database Objects in Excel (or some other form of spreadsheets)

This is an idea to add a functionality to export/import IWS Database Objects to/from IWS DB. Many IWS customers are requesting a functionality to export IWS Database Objects to a spreadsheet, edit them, then bulk import the objects back to IWS DB....
13 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow hierarchical slicer in TBM Studio report subscription

Currently if a report uses hierarchical slicers, those slicers are not available to be selected in the report subscription dialogue. This forces configuration changes on the report (removing hierarchical slicers and replacing with normal slicers) ...
12 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
27 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
14 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
14 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
24 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
10 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Make the Extendible Domain editor accessible to Partners

Within our current experience using TargetProcess, at a lot of customers the capabilities of TargetProcess are extended with existing solutions to create new entities & relations according to the customer's needs. However, most of the time, th...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration