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Modify the time span between alert clearance and alert deletion and trigger policy when an alert is deleted

Background In the current IBM AIOps , alerts that reach the cleared state are automatically deleted after approximately 2 minutes.While this default behavior helps optimize database performance, it lacks flexibility for environments that require l...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

New type of policies that replace the Temporal Triggers in Netcool/OMNIBus

Background During the migration of Aggregation ObjectServer triggers from Netcool/OMNIbus to IBM AIOps, a critical gap has been identified. The existing temporal triggers in OMNIbus—which execute periodically after a defined time interval to evalu...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Clear All

When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
18 days ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Reporting of Cloudability User Metrics for Administrators

As an Administrator of our Cloudability/ApptioBI system I have a requirement to report on my colleagues overall usage of your products to my management. Namely: Cloudability, ApptioBI, and (limited) TBM/Apptio One. This could be console access, vi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Use Selected Time Period to Populate AutoFill Lists in Filter on a report or dashboard

My understanding is that the last two months of data are used to populate the autofill values on the filter dimensions. For example, if I select Jan - Jun 2025 in the date selection and then add Month (Year) as a filter, the autofill options are 2...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Turbonomic to support resource monitoring for IBM softwares delivered in virtual appliance form

IBM has a few software products that are delivered as virtual appliances. These services running in a VM deployed with a OVA template. Currently, Turbonomic evaluate them as a regular VM and may issue a resize actions based on the server metrics d...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted