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Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP. These accounts show up in UI with Red X, which gives the appearance that not all of the accounts have been Advanced Credentialed...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Planned for future release

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

We would like to see labels / annotations at a pod-level instead of a cluster-level via report or API

Our internal team tags their Kubernetes clusters at a pod level because they track their client's usage via pods since it's more granular. However, right now Cloudability reports and API pulls only give us access to cluster level labels & anno...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs and reports over-provisioning and rightsizing recommendations

What We Need A Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs usage and tells us when we're paying for more capacity than we need (or when we're about to hit limits). Since tier and capacity are set at the namespace level, we need rightsizing...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Amortization Schedule in Editable Table

When entering data in an editable table for a cost Item that needs to be spread out for time period duration it would be really helpful if the user can just check a box as is done in planning the cost can be amortized for the specific time. This w...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
14 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted