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Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
26 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
27 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Support for AWS Cost Categories

We currently have AWS cost categories in place and is extensively used to reflect our organisation structure, ownership and allocation for our costs. Rather than redoing this work via Business Mapping it would be great if Cloudability could import...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Adding natural logarithm function to TBM studio

Adding a natural logarithm (ln) function to TBM Studio would enable users to perform Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) analysis for cost allocation decomposition. LMDI is a widely-used method in decomposition but requires natural log calculati...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools

Proposed Enhancement Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools. This would allow: Temporary suspension of compute resources without deleting the pool. Retention of configurations...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

Display ServiceNow Incident number for AIOps incidents in Incident View

It would be beneficial to the operations team to quickly check the corresponding ServiceNow incident numbers for AIOps incidents in Incident view. It would also help identify quickly if any AIOps incidents missed ServiceNow incident creation and t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We should be able to pull Azure Utilization data into reports and dashboards in Cloudability & Apptio BI

Currently utilization data for Azure is in Resource Inventory. But we need to be able to pull it into reports and create widgets for our dashboards. Our IT teams and leaders would want to see these metrics in a summarized way without having to go ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Agent restriction to SaaS Backend

In an Instana SaaS environment where application server owners can onboard agents to the backend: Mechanisms to restrict what agents are allowed to report to the SaaS backend. A process to detect and remove any rogue agents that have been onbo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Please add the effective cost in the downloaded file for executed actions (widget)

We are seeing the effective cost in the UI, however when the report / details are downloaded to in excel format, it contains the on-demand cost rather than the effective cost.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration