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Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Product Documentation Clarity and Coverage

We've received feedback indicating that certain parts of the product documentation are difficult to understand, particularly when it comes to behavior that changes based on conditions on the CSP (Cloud Service Provider) side. Specifically: -There ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0

Create a page that lists all of the current available OID device certifications for all devices that have been certified with SevOne NPM including last updated certifications date/time

Provide us an expedited method to validate existing/new certifications within NPM Help us to provide faster responses to our customers
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Add Documentation Guide for Setting Up Azure CSP Billing Targets with Turbonomic

Many customers, particularly in markets like Norway, purchase Microsoft Azure through Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) such as Atea, Crayon, SoftwareOne. In these scenarios, the CSP often manages billing data, which can limit the customer’s direct ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Add additional timeline 60 days, 90 days to Rightsizing recommendations

Users would like to have a better understanding of their workload utilisation (containers in particular) before being able to make a decision to rightsizing. Additional timeline options such as 60days & 90days would be helpful for them to make...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Improvement "Related" functionality in TMB Studio

It will be very handful to add into functionality "Related" tables that are using current table as a source table. The same for Lineage, now it`s not showing any relation between these tables.
25 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
25 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

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