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Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Develop Container ROI Policy to track Container Optimizations

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, it's imperative to track & report on all savings achieved. We are currently unable to track any container optimization savings as there isn't an ROI policy available for Containers.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 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

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

News Banner on IWS DWC portal after user login

If there option to add cusmised Colored scrolling or fix News Banner on IWS DWC portal after any Oprator login to portal,Thsi will be very usefull to anounce planned CRQ for IWS or DWC portal or Admin can put outage details in advance in News Banner
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

User Role Mapping from NMS

This feature request aims to implement role mapping for SevOne Data Insight (SDI) authentication. Currently, SDI uses NMS for user authentication. If a user exists in NMS and the password matches, the user is authenticated but assigned default rol...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Allow Multiple Apptio Planning Instances

We have multiple Apptio Planning in different environments but Apptio doesn't allow user to access multiple planning in different browser tabs. It's inconvenient when we are working or comparing different planning instances at the same time.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration