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Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Enable users to retain visibility of the current view in Apptio BI while scrolling down

When navigating through large datasets or dashboards, the view context often disappears as you scroll, making it difficult to know which section or filter you are currently in. Maintaining the view would improve usability and reduce errors when an...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
16 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to create (more) interactive Boards at Dynamic Workload Console

To increase acceptance and usability of IBM Workload Scheduler the graphical user interface (Dynamic Workload Console) should be enhanced by the possibility to create (more) interactive boards. At the moment it seems not to be possible to create b...
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

when upgrading, we may not be able to upgrade as quickly as IBM releases (quarterly). We shuld be able to upgrade from a few revisions behind without having to do intermediate upgrades. i.e. 4.9 to 4.12 should be done in one step, not 4.9 to 4.10 to 4.11, etc.

will make it easier for environments who can't upgrade as quickly as ibm releases
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable API access to alert comments (journals) in Watson AIOps.

In our current migration from Netcool OMNIbus to Watson AIOps, we have identified the lack of an API to programmatically retrieve historical alert comments (journals). This capability is essential for audit purposes, operational traceability, and ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
23 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Kanban View States: ability to customize grouping of states

It would be helpful to have the ability to customize how states are displayed as columns in the Kanban view. Right now, the system automatically groups them based on process workflows. We would like the flexibility to categorize states or map them...

Add Entity and Action UUIDs as an available column in the Search and Actions tables

The process for getting to this information easily for 50+ or even 1000+ items when utilizing the APIs to do metadata tagging is very cumbersome and requires multiple navigation clicks to move from one item to another. Making this an available cus...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted