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Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Make quick filters ignore relations in EventViewer

Suppose you have an event viewer with these events:* Alert 1 - severity 5* Alert 2 - Severity 4 * Alert 3 - Severity 5 Then we create a Quick Filter (in the top right corner of the event viewer) Severity = 5. Now the event viewer shows: * Alert 1 ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Allow for Python/SQL data manipulation

Customer would like to be able to use python or SQL to manipulate the data to create table joins and data transformation.  They are familiar with using those methods a
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Can the Jira Integration be updated to allow for a Rightsizing recommendation to be tied to an existing Jira?

A few of our engineering groups have asked if the Jira integration with Cloudability could be updated to allow them to tie a Rightsizing recommendation to an existing Jira ticket or if multiple recommendations could be tied to one Jira ticket? I t...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Display tag names for Hosts in the Infrastructure view

We have 2 zones defined with each zones having 20 servers for production and integration environments. Since there is no option to enable tag as display names for hosts on zones, its difficult to identify the application servers. It would be good ...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Job/schedule report in table format rather than just dump filr in IWS format

if any team wants their scheduls/job details in table format like ABC job runs at this job,with this depedancy(list of all depedanies),part of this jobstream etc etc so this will be easily reable/understanble for normal user than checking and unde...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration