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Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Instana's Microsoft SQL Server sensor not supporting client-side tracing for PHP application for customer

Customer- SBM Limited has a PHP application instrumented with the Instana agent on CRM APP Server where database calls are not appearing in the Instana traces. SQL queries to mssql are missing. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0...
2 months ago in Instana / PHP 1

Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

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, ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Allow Dex to run on multiple appliances

Currently in SSO set-ups Dex runs on 1 appliance. This makes SSO hard to function in environments behind load balancers as not every appliance is running the daemon and the requests may not come from the Cluster Leader
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

A Turbo Feature that allows the export and import of the Turbo configuration, such as policies, groups, and targets.

The Turbonomic policies, groups, and target settings are assets of our customer, created based on their business requirements, use cases, and resource management experiences. There should be a way for them to export these settings as backups. Thes...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration