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Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be great and it's required as soon as possible.

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be helpful
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...

Ability to sort widgets and reports on second and third levels

Ability to sort widgets and reports on second and third levels
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Define which entities can be added from main "add button" in left menu

I would like to be able to narrow down the list of entities that can be created from the add button in the left menu of Targetprocess. For instance we don't want to let users create time records from this menu, because they should only be created ...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Needs more information

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review