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Start Date Time and End Date Time should be captured in Instana Alerts via Mail/MSTeams

We have configured alerting for our services in Instana, but we have noticed that the email notifications for triggered alerts do not display the start and end times of the alert. The alert email only shows severity, entity, and message. Start tim...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Please change numerical fields in data downloads to be formatted as number on downloads

Hi IBM, I've noticed that when downloading any data from Turbonomic the csv or excel that is extracted does not format numerical data in a number format within csv/excel. Please can the scripting be changed on the download/extract function to form...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add filtering capabilities to entities history

Current Limitation: The history tab on TargetProcess entities can become quite extensive, especially for items with frequent updates. Currently, users must manually expand each individual update to determine which fields were changed. There is no ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners. Question by IBM team.------------------------- Valid RBAC request. Have you seen our new SaaS reporting option? This is...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Gateway for Message_Bus v2 should include Transformer (and be fully compatible to nco_g_xml)

The new release of the Message Bus Gateway (v2) is announced as being more reliable and having better performance than the existing nco_g_xml. However, it turns out to not contain all the functionality. Our customer (main German Telco company) is ...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

to add attachment option in email alerting using EWS probe

to enable the email alerting with the attachment. Currently in our environment we are monitoring email alerting with EWS probe in the standard format without any attachment option but we are currently trying to add some attachment in XML format so...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Commitment Recommendations list should include account names

When I look at reservation recommendation list, I see only instance types. I dont know on which accounts these instances work and whom I should follow up in regards to reservations. Please add Account ID or Account names in the recommendation list.

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration