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Failed missing node should be displayed in the InfrastructureMap to attract attention

This is the request from the banking client after they executed the failure-recovery test of DB node. This request is not for how we can notified on the failure, but for improving the display of the Infrastructure map. -- During the test, they dis...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Enable Cloudability to Ingest Azure Data via Private Endpoint

Description: We have a security policy that would need an exceptions process to be able to adopt Cloudability for Azure. We request an enhancement to allow Cloudability to ingest Azure cost and usage data through Azure Private Link or similar priv...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Expand the Cloudability Scorecard Capabilities Across AWS Services and extend the Historical View

Currently Scorecard component in Cloudability provides valuable insights , but its scope is limited primarily to AWS Compute Services and a 30-day view. This restricts our ability to measure optimization maturity and track long term improvements a...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability 0 Under review

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 1 Future consideration

Generate alerts for Anomaly Detection at Account level

technical teams need to be able to monitor the anomalies for their accounts, but the current setting for alert is generating additional "noise"
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 2 Future consideration

Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Start Date Time and End Date Time should be captured in Instana Alerts via Mail/MSTeams

We have configured alerting for our services in Instana, but we have noticed that the email notifications for triggered alerts do not display the start and end times of the alert. The alert email only shows severity, entity, and message. Start tim...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review