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Automated report delivery from Total Cost/Apptio

Requesting a method for automated scheduled report delivery of reports from Total Cost. We have a series of reports created in TBM Studio that reflect key KPIs and other pertinent data. We need a way to automatically schedule the delivery of these...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 2 Delivered

IsBank wants Instana to support Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version 4.122.x and above. Current support is 4.121.

We are experiencing some problems in monitoring the card system side, one of our most critical systems, on Instana. While the Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version on the relevant servers is 4.122.1, Instana supports 4.121.2 and be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

ASM ServiceNow Observer - enhance CI relationship discovery to handle larger queries / Support splitting of servicenow jobs

Based on case TS010786559 it is clear that the service now observer falls down on CI relationship discovery when a large number of CI classes are selected for discovery. This is demonstrated by the relationship query becoming too large for service...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

AIX - Add additional memory insights

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows is memory consumed. It doesn't show any other memory metric trends (like paging, swap, etc.). Having this insight is key to us migrating to IBM Instana from IBM APM, which does show the...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered
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Support for Elasticsearch 8.2

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I am using elasticsearch for DB purpose and running 8.2 in the production. As per below document elastic8.2 is not supported yet. Please verify elasticsearch 8.2 and let us know. We are not seeing traces related to elasticdb in Instana by default ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Incorporate variance analysis into an inline plan/forecast activity

In our business process, I would like to open a forecast or plan, and based on changes made by the Cost Centre Owner, variance driver capture is triggered/becomes mandatory based on the changes made going outside a set tolerance. The basics of the...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Export data comparison table

Hello, By performing a filter on our machines on the comparison table view. It would be interesting to be able to export all the machines that we see. This will allow us to use them for scripts or to transfer them Sincerely
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Snmpv3 - notification for unknown EngineID

It is necessary to develop functionality so that the snmp probe identifies snmpv3 traps, for which EngineID isn't set in the config file. And for that traps, we need the probe to send a notification that informs us to update the config file with n...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
over 3 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered