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Add more information to device status page

When added, last discovered time and duration, object counts (visible/hidden) - currently only some this information is available and all of it is useful when debugging failures and adding new device types. Some is only available with SQL queries ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus (XML) should support replication of secondary tables

The gateway and probe for message bus is getting more and more important on all customer sites to receive alerts and to transfer ObjectServer data to external customer systems. Most customer implementations contain secondary tables which hold diff...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

CT Report Filters should have 'Select All' Option

As a reporting user, I want the ability to choose all values from my filter values except one or two. This becomes very difficult to do when my filter has hundreds of values. For example, if I want to filter by a Customer field that has hundreds ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Future consideration

Need “Overwrite” capability in the Custom Calendar feature in Time Settings

Time Settings -> Custom Calendar feature only has “Append” option available to update dates.If we have to change the custom calendar dates(that we have already included in the file and checked in), we always have to rollback several days/months...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Add "Alert Cubes" DI widget to summarize alerts by "groups of device groups" or "groups of object groups"

NOC / SOC engineers want a quick visual summary of their assets under management that may have alerts raised for them. By selecting a device group parent group or an object group parent group this will provide a summarized list of groups of groups...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 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