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Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Provide Functionality to trigger an Anomaly based on a larger time sample. i.e Month over Month, vs Day over Dat

This helpful as they had a service that was idle for two months and it inadvertently started being used. It took a few days for it to be detected as anomalous behavior. Using a Month over Month time frame, might have triggered an alert earlier.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Better load balancing when on-prem cluster gets overutilized and note in the UI which tells the problem

Our on-premises virtualization clusters are stretched across two data centers. We aim to keep resource utilization in the clusters below 50% so that in the event of a data center failure, there are still enough resources available for all VMs. To ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

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.
5 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...
5 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.
5 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
5 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...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration