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Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
10 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Future consideration

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Under review

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Filters in Cloudability financial planning

When building a plan in Cloudability Financial Planning, we want the ability to include or exclude specific elements—such as credits, marketplace charges, taxes, and others—just like we can currently do in Apptio BI Finance is building the budgets...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Unapproved Software Detection and Catalog Reconciliation

Solution Value Statement Enables Concert to detect and classify unapproved software across endpoints and reconcile discovered applications against enterprise-approved catalogs. This improves visibility, reduces shadow IT risk, and supports complia...
about 2 months ago in Concert 0

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...

Support rightsizing and managing AWS Lambda functions

As clients are maturing in the cloud, we are noticing more services and application moving towards a server-less architecture. Identifying which configuration on Lambda is suitable based on the demand is challenging to customers, and each configur...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 4 Planned for future release