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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

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

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 8 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

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 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

Need the ability to customize the collection interval for the k8sensor

A number of customers are ingesting more data than the fair use policy allows and are being charged more for their SaaS environment. They want ways to customize the data that is being ingested. One of the largest sources of data in a number of our...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration