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Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

BI - Re-sort Tabs

Ability to re-order tabs created in BI report.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
8 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

NCIM support for MS SQL Server

We are primarily an MS SQL DB shop. We have a lot of support of This DB not very much support of DB2 especially in distributed platforms. Using MS SQL would be extremely beneficial.
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Subscribe to Multiple Views for Cloud Spend Summary Emails Notification

Currently, Cloud Spend Summary Emails notification is limited only available for a Single Default View. However, as platform/business owners, we are managing multiple applications which managed through different customized Views. It would be great...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Add CANC P status to dropdown for event rule monitoring Job Stream change of status

Our staff were somewhat surprised by the CANC P status because we really have no collective memory of encountering that before. It would be probably more truthful to say the status was overlooked, assuming that it had been cancelled, but nobody co...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration