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In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Show business dimensions in container reporting

Business dimensions add details that are logic driven vs. directly labeled. Customers want to be able to dynamically add additional information based on K8s labels and be able to filter on those in container insights.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

filter by Account Name/ID

In the Rightsizing section, if it can add filters by Account Name or Account ID dimensions, it will be much handy for use to manage the rightsizing distribution.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Possible filters in History tab

With automation rules and metrics putting a lot of records in history, it’s very difficult to find who changed a field in the past. I think it would be perfect if we had the possibility to have a dropdown where you select a “field” which you want ...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Certificate the integration between Netcool Omnibus JDBC Gateway and OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

The customer wants to integrate the Netcool Omnibus Gateway JDBC (NOI 1.6.11 on-premise) to OCL (Oracle Clous Infrastructure Oracle 19). we create the case TS015960524 and IBM support says that the Netcool JDBC Gateway is not certificated and not ...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Expansion of Portfolio to Korea Hosting(MS Azure-Seoul)

As per the link on the page below, KT has signed a strategic partnership with MS. https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/28/kt-corporation-and-microsoft-take-giant-step-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea/ KT Cloud, a subsidiary of KT, has a plan to ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Under review

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

In Targetprocess (Apptio), the Number custom field type is limited to a precision of up to 2 decimal places. I want it should have a provision to expand it to 4 decimal places.

It will definitely help my Business users.
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration