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Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache & Elastisearch

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache and Elasticsearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for these services to help optimize...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Needs more information

Need audit logs for Sevone NMS

Useful For debugging. To know details such as , what action was performed at which time by which user. Sample API log required: <User> <Time> <Request Type> <URL> <Status> - <admin> <10:45:00 IST> <POST...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
4 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Please make the Price adjustment tab cloud agnostic and allow users to enter in a static discount for a resource type

Currently, the Price adjustment tab is only valid for AWS subscriptions, despite there already being a separate AWS discounts tab. This is very confusing. Intutively, I would think the price adjustment tab should be used without without a billing ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache . It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive gre...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Under review

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration