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Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Backup

A capacity reservation lowers storage costs of backup data in a Recovery Services Vault. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations ar...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Database for MySQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the MySQL Database server. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look a...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Corporate Font addtion to Studio

We have been following an ideation of having the option to have Corporate Colours added to Studio for reporting and have heard this has been built and will be in an upgrade soon. Would it also be possible to have Corporate Fonts added as an option...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Widget conditional display options

Provide the ability to only show a widget if a condition is met. Similar to report linking provide rules for the widget in order for it to be shown such as Device or Object metadata, or even the presence of data. It is common to have multiple tabs...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Force delete option for linked reports

You can't delete a report / template if linked somewhere and time consuming to try locate where it is linked. Would be nice to have a "force delete option". Sometimes linked report can occur in multiple places and we just want to remove the linked...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration