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Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

Instana Self-Hosted make ports 8080 and 8081 configureable

Customer cannot use Instana onPrem environment as onPrem Instana requires 8080 and 8081 ports and doesn't allow to change the ports during installation. There is a software installed on all servers in customer environment as per policy of the cust...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Add "Trailing Twelve Months (TTM)" option to Calendar-Based Column Options

As a TBMA, I would like the option to quickly declare a metric's column should show its value as a sum of the current month + the past 11 months. Today, I can select from options highlighted in the Help documentation here: https://help.apptio.com/...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 3 Delivered

Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps : Event Manager UI Concurrent Users

The concurrent users for the event manager shows max supported are 130 as per the documentation , For Etisalat we have over 1400 users and we need this feature immediately as we are planning for deployment that architecture should meet the custome...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Make authentications availability and location more flexible. For example, credentials for within body of request.

"Make authentications available for use within the body of or as parameters for the request. Some integrations and usecases like CURL or HTTPRequest I was looking to pass the credentials as a part of the body. Perhaps you set an authentication for...
about 1 year ago in Concert Workflows 3 Delivered

Labor Tab - Summary of Planned & Existing

Would like to a have a summary view within the labor tab that combines the existing and planned employees for a total organization/holistic view
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Add exclusive edit permission for specified columns to Controlling / TBMO

Our Controllers and TBMAs want a custom column that is only editable for them and not to other users. This would allow to add comments and annotations that cannot be overwritten.  Or simply a yes/no flag that says "checked by Controlling" tha...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered