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Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Create BULK ADD nodes option for Status Maps in NMS

Status Maps are limited by not being able to add nodes from a spreadsheet or other file format: I have a spreadsheet with some 400 objects listed, together with a name for each object. I want to create a Status Map (just a grid with each of the no...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow for BI report to be default login report

When one logs into Cloudability the home screen is Cloudability Dashboard. Would like Preferences to allow User to select a BI Report to be home screen at login.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Ability to hide "Visualization Default" option in Environment Name drop down menu from specified roles

Problem: As part of a recent release the Environment Name menu was made visible to user when accessing Apptio BI reports via the Cloudability Standard tile. In addition a new option "Visualization Default" was added for all users. This "Visualizat...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
9 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Multiple Vcenters using single instana agent VM

Dear IBM, I am facing issue to monitor 5 Vcenters of my client with single instana agent, Vcenters Credentials i added in the configuration.yaml file but every time it takes last Vcenter to Instana UI. I used different approaches in the yaml as we...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Feature Request for "Migrate to Cloud" in the PLAN Functionality

In the "Select Where to Migrate" section of "Migrate to Cloud," currently only existing clouds (those linked to the account) are displayed. Users cannot execute planning if they do not have an account. For example, if a user with only an Azure acc...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1 Future consideration