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FX Rate Automation

Integrate FX Rate Automation into Multi Currency - giving Administrators the opportunity to utilize an automated end of month or average rate to convert into their preferred currency.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Device Manager Alerting exclude option

By default all alert types are shown. Sometimes you only want to exclude certain types such as Debug. Instead the only way is to have to select every available option. NMS provides a better way of doing this using a tick option - by default everyt...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Report Linking "excludes" operator

DI Report Linking only provides the "includes" operator. Require the "excludes" option. We have reports that need to be excluded for specific cases but enabled for all.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Future consideration

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Centralize Executed Actions between Turbonomic instances

If we want HA for any of the features that Turbonomic provides, our only option is to set up some sort of hot-warm configuration. With this configuration, actions are generated and performed locally only. If failovers have occurred in the past, it...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Retrieve multiple alerts AlertID values stored in a single variable when executing a right click tool

In the alert view, it is possible to select multiple alerts and execute a Right-Click tool. The expected result is that the tool returns the AlertID for all selected alerts, however it only returns one. This behaviour can be used in many scenarios...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration