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Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Future consideration

Extend Topology Manager to be able to run Remote Observers for network discovery

With the introduction of Net-Disco and App-Disco plug-ins in ASM v1.1.8 (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9LQB_1.1.8/ProductOverview/r_asm_whatsnew.html#r_asm_whatsnew) , its not possible to run all components on single host as it wou...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Make Instana redis sensor support DragonflyDB, the Redis-compatible alternative

Many customers run DragonflyDB (a Redis-compatible alternative, instead of the standard Redis.) to host their applications, which claims provide better performance, more memory efficient, simpler operations, and dramatically lower cost. Since Drag...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Feature to schedule the fetching of data

GSK have confirmed that their Azure billing files get updated at approx 06:30 BST, daily. So if CLDY could check for updates at say, 08:00, it would avoid a long delay.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Support Migrate to cloud plan for VMs from On Prem to GCP

As a CloudOps engineer, I wanted to run "Migrate to Cloud Plan" for non GCP Virtual machines (includes On Premises, AWS, Azure) to GCP (Destination), So that I can obtain the comparative recommendations to review and execute the migration on best ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement. Better value for "suggestion" field is highly desirable. It currently has so much undesired detail with line breaks unlike other alert "suggestion" field. Find actual alert paylod in a...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Add an Export button in UI to export metrics/analytics data to a CSV file

The requested feature is to have a button in the UI to allow exporting metrics or analytics from a dashboard into a CSV file or other types of consumable files. This is needed for any large organization to enable the creation of basic reports to d...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Adaptive smart alert show preview based on threshold 'corridors'

As users we found it difficult to understand the threshold preview for adaptive smart alerts shows as one line metric. We would favour threshold shown as range above und below the actual metric line which would show the user the corridor of normal...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics.  To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of tre...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration