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Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
15 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / User Management & Login 1 Future consideration

Alarm Propagation Based on Topological Relationships for Telco Use Cases

In Telco environments using IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, network infrastructure such as routers, switches, and access nodes is often modeled topologically as parent entities containing various dependent resources like physical interfaces, cards, and m...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Expand supported limit of concurrent users in the UI

We have a large operation currently relying on Netcool's WebGUI. It is a large telecom company with a network of continental proportions. The operations and other teams that frequently accesses the UI to view alarms are currently around 100 concur...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review