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Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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

Flagging Promotional Credits in GCP as Promotional Credits instead of falling under the general bucket of credits

Customers like Ulta and others have millions of dollars in Promotional Credits each year. Currently Cloudability doesn't offer the option to flag these promotional credits as Promotional Credits, rather they fall under the general bucket of Credit...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

Add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscriptions

Idea : Is to add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscription so that customer's can get an idea of the affected resources just through the subscription alert. While I do understand that link provided in the alert (redirecting to CLDY page) provided...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 2 Under review

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...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Include Process Details in Email/Msteams Alert

1. Currently, in Instana, the alerts we receive via email or Teams do not include information about which process is consuming high CPU. However, when we check the event details within the Instana UI, the specific process name is available. 2. It ...
30 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release