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Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
11 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Simultaneous Execution Limits per Policy - Allow setting of number of parallel executions at a policy level

This is very useful in limiting the number of actions kicked off under the same schedule at the same time. Right now all actions which the policy applies to will kick off at the same time. This means that multiple members of the same service clust...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

New Dimensions for Resource Type on reports

to have a new dimension for reports that shows resource type. Currently having to use Item Description and Resource ID as a deminsion and then filter with one of those by using the (contains) operator to get to the resource type is a messy way of ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Color-coded highlighting based on ticket status

Description: Currently, Instana alert emails display ticket/event details in plain formatting. For better readability, we request support for color-coded highlighting based on ticket status. Request: Open Tickets → Title should be displayed in Red...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Filter Options on Apptio Admin Console Users Report

Hi Support Team, Could you please enable filter options on the Apptio Admin Console Users report? This will help improve usability and streamline data analysis. Let me know if any additional details are needed. Regards Swarna
about 1 month ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Expand shared views to include all hierarchy levels

When currently sharing a view with an external user, that user will only be able to see the 1st level hierarchy of the report and are not able to drill down to see lower level items. This defeats the purpose of having a shared view if the external...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Not under consideration