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Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Ability to close connections better from PostgreSQL blocks

At this time, a workflow does not have the ability to directly close a PostgreSQL connect from a PostgreSQL block. As far as I am aware, they instead remain open until they time out, which is typically 10 seconds or so. This enhancement would add ...
12 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

Automate GCP refresh advanced credentialing

End user has to manually refresh the advanced button to have the green checkmark
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 2 Delivered

More granularity in the cluster section, to go to the pod level, not only on the namespace level

More granularity in the cluster section, to go to the pod level, not only on the namespace level
6 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Delivered

GCP Utilization Data Reporting

helpful to create dashboards recommended by Deloitte in Unifai WP2 These dashboard can help to find optimization opprotunities
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 2 Delivered

Apptio Costing Essentials: Make Solution Allocations independent from hardcoded Solution Type, e.g. Allow Headcount Allocations to whole Organization based on Criteria from Workbench

Currently only End User Solutions are allocated via Headcount to Organizations. We propose to adjust the mechanism independent from Solution Types, so all allocations can be set via workbench, as for most customers the methods are different. In th...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Delivered

Add support of SLES15 on zLinux for Apache(IHS) tracing, to suppport Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring

We want to use Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring, through Apache HTTPd tracing module. Now our IBM HTTP Server v9 is running on SLES 15 on zLinux. Please provide the support of SLES15 on zLinux. Now we only support SLES 12 on x86-64 arch...
6 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 2 Delivered

Adding Tag filtration to Account level Dynamic Groups

Add a way to allow for Accounts (Subscriptions) to include a tag filter and create Dynamic Groups. This would allow you another way to build groups in Turbonomic dynamically for a list of subscriptions with tags on them.
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered

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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

integration with Palo Alto Strata cloud

We need integration with Palo Alto Strata cloud so that we can leverage RIA to monitor devices present strata in sevone NPM
6 months ago in Concert Workflows 4 Delivered