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Budgets Data Log

Currently we need to raise an incident to IBM in order to see who updated the Budgets and when as we as admins do not have that view. This is time consuming for IBM and for us and sometimes when we do bulk uploads that can lead to data loss and a ...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Needs more information

Add Search Functionality in Entity History Section for Improved Field Tracking

Currently, each entity has a history section where we can see the update history of each field. When there are only a few fields, the current UI works well. However, for entities with 100+ fields that are kept for long periods, tracking the histor...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1

Expand Cldy Container Insights to ECS

A large portion of our container usage is using ECS. It would be helpful for the Cldy Container Insights to work with ECS.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

It would be desirable if multiple currencies could be handled by one Turbonomic

Currently, only one currency symbol can be set, so if AWS (USD) and Azure (Yen) are mixed, it will be confusing. Each time, we create a group just for AWS and refer to that dashboard, which is cumbersome.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration