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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...
21 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

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

We have requirement to monitor windows OS 2025

It helps customer business by making OS up to market standards in terms of new features and also increase company business Our Customer is Sandvik We need your help by providing with latest fixpack or ServicePack for ITM which supports windows OS ...
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Limit communication between PSS and DS to a specific eth interface

In an environment where servers have multiple eth interfaces it, all the traffic between PSS and DS ought to happen only between those interfaces that are specified in collation.properties. Currently, despite configuring DS <-> PSS communica...
3 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration