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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

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Needs more information

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

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.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the distinction between NULL and BLANK values

Today incoming blanks are of one type <BLANK> and all formula blanks are another <NULL>. The workaround, once identified, is to use an IF statement to set both values to blank. It would be great if a solution could be implemented to co...
15 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Bring Your Own S3 Bucket Support for IBM FinOps Agent (Containers Metric Deployment)

The IBM FinOps Agent currently requires outbound connectivity to transmit container metrics, which presents challenges for private or highly regulated Kubernetes environments. We propose introducing a “Bring Your Own S3 Bucket” (BYOS3) deployment ...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted