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Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 4 Functionality already exists

Ability to verify the expiration date of the “update access keys” from the Hardware Management Console

This feature enables the verification of the expiration status of the “update access keys” within the Hardware Management Console. It ensures that administrators can monitor and prevent interrupted access to system updates and hardware management ...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Event ID in the subject line

Description: At present, Instana alert emails display the Event ID (currently alphanumeric) only in the email body. For operational efficiency, we need the Event ID to also appear in the email subject line. Current Behavior: Event ID is alphanumer...
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Turbonomic could be enhanced with predictions based on trends and seasonal effects

Currently Turbonomic bases its recommendations/actions on historical data, you can select which previous period to consider, looking at long-term utilitization or short-term utilization to base the actions on. There probably is a limited period ov...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0

Be able to sort lists/views etc on the left hand pane

It would be useful to be able to sort items on the left hand pane by alpha order or create date, creator, etc.. This should be able to be done on the main level or within a folder. This would make it easier to find items in the left hand pane sprawl.
22 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Not under consideration

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists