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Custom colour palette in ApptioBI and Cloudability widgets

As a report builder in these two products I struggle to highlight what I want to, due to the standardised default colour palete. We get no ability to change whatever colours the widgets decide on. I work for a group of companies. Each has it's own...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

View/Edit anomaly detection - alert notifications centrally

Currently, the Cloudability console does not provide visibility into who has configured Anomaly Alerts Notifications. As the FinOps team, gaining insight into which users have enabled these alerts—along with the associated thresholds and the views...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

A status page for Turbonomic SaaS

Why is it useful? A dedicated SaaS status page for Turbonomic provides transparency to customers by delivering real-time updates on system performance, service availability, and ongoing incidents. This fosters trust and enhances the customer exper...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Enable trend analysis of savings by month with filters in Rightsizing ROI

Currently, Rightsizing ROI provides a view of optimization opportunities and realized savings, but it does not allow customers to easily perform month-over-month trend analysis. Customers need to track how rightsizing efforts are contributing to o...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

WebMethods Integration Server internall calls filtering

Hello, Currently there is a functionality that enables monitoring of all WebMethods Integration Server internall calls https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=machine-configuring-java-sensor#enabling-internal-service-calls-...
2 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Allow configuration of custom OIDC scopes in Instana SSO settings (e.g. entitlement_group)

Currently Instana’s OIDC integration only supports specifying the discovery URL. Instana always requests the default scopes (openid, profile, email). In our environment, critical authorization information (entitlement_group, authorization_group, s...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration