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Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
24 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 0 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

Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI audit Log entries for unsuccessfull access attempts

The Logfiles of WEBGUI didn't shows enties for unsuccessfull access attempts. For security reasons it will be necessary to log when a user tires to access a url without the required permissions.
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Subscribe feature in comparison report

Hi Team, We need the feature to subscribe to reports where there is compare checked in the dashboards.Presently, it is greyed out.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 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...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

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 ...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
8 months ago in Apptio 1 Future consideration

Native DevRev Integration

The customer has requested native integration with DevRev, similar to how Cloudabilty integrates with ServiceNow and DataDog. DevRev offers a unified, AI-driven customer relationship management (CRM) platform for SaaS companies, integrating custom...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
13 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted