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Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools

Proposed Enhancement Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools. This would allow: Temporary suspension of compute resources without deleting the pool. Retention of configurations...
21 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

Display ServiceNow Incident number for AIOps incidents in Incident View

It would be beneficial to the operations team to quickly check the corresponding ServiceNow incident numbers for AIOps incidents in Incident view. It would also help identify quickly if any AIOps incidents missed ServiceNow incident creation and t...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow for Users to Remove Themselves as View Owners if there is another owner.

Currently, users who have been added as owners to views for trouble shooting purposes (like portfolio admins or other support staff) are unable to remove themselves from the same view. As a view owner, I need to be able to remove myself from any v...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Agent restriction to SaaS Backend

In an Instana SaaS environment where application server owners can onboard agents to the backend: Mechanisms to restrict what agents are allowed to report to the SaaS backend. A process to detect and remove any rogue agents that have been onbo...
22 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
3 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Allow for additional filter logic - combining attributes with OR as well as And.

In the current functionality, when filters are added, you cannot create logic that is (Account IDs = XXXX) OR (Account Names contain YYY). Not having the flexibility to combine data in this way results in creating additional business mappings that...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review