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Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 4

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

ServiceNow Gateway to respond to ncp_ping and hence work under Process Agent control.

In relation to case TS020138656 SNOW GW doesn't respond to ncp_ping and hence not working with PA. This impacted our production instances running under Omnibus nco_pad for High Availability. IBM Supported suggested in the case above: " I would lik...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Omnibus ServiceNow Gateway OAuth 2.0 to support "client_credential" grant_type

In relation to a IBM CASE TS019948013 Omnibus GW for SNOW OAuth2.0 Refresh Token status: 302 issue. Current Impact: our Production instance of SNOW gateway can't use OAuth2.0 authentication mode due to the reported issue above. Raise an enhancemen...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Request to create HMC Observer

We have been advised by IBM to create this request for requesting HMC observer, seems there is already out-of-the-box developed observer which can be bundled to suffice.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release