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Support for Java library - EclipseLink 2.1

Most of clients uses JPA (Java Persistence API) caching using the implementation of the EclipseLink Library. By having the support of this library will improve the visibility and a better end-to-end tracking and the CPU/MEM metrics as well JDBC Ca...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Needs more information

Provide safe way to execute certain tasks which had been automated prior to 7.0 as a root user

Root access removed in NMS 7.0+ breaks customer automation workflows, particularly certificate renewal automation. As certificate lifecycles decrease, manual renewal becomes unsustainable without a least-privilege alternative. Operational Risk Cer...
18 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Needs more information

Allow multiple config files for the OTEL collector

As well as the regular tracing and host information collection, the config file contains all the log parsing and processing information for every log file that the collector must work. A customer I am working with who is looking to migrate from IT...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 6 Needs more information

Windows Top 10 processes

Provide the ability to display top 10 processes by CPU/Memory much like the Linux agent can.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Needs more information

Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Needs more information

Container Platform Clusters - "Executed Actions - Succeded and Failed" widget with empty data

For Turbonomic, In the search -> Container Platform Clusters option, the "Executed Actions - Succeeded or Failed" widget doesn't display any data for a specific cluster. The customer opened a support case ticket (TS020249556) and the response f...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Needs more information

Add confirmation pop-up before publishing a plan to Apptio Costing

If I select Plans in Apptio Planning and select "Publish to Apptio Costing..." in the three-dots-menu, the publishing process starts immediately.As there is a high risk to click on this command by accident, it would be great to have a confirmation...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Install Windows Agent without administration privileges

Hi team, we would like to have the option to install the Windows Agent without needing to have administration privilege. Could you consider this, understanding this might limit some of the functionality that the agent provides? Thanks in advance, ...
17 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Needs more information

Cloud Pak for AIOps - VMware vCenter Observer capabilities

Improved and enhanced functionality of the Cloud Pak for AIOps - VMware vCenter Observer capabilities
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Needs more information

Add Kubecost as a standard connection for importing data

Create a connector that will import data from a standalone Kubecost installation to allow import to Cloudability similar to FOCUS format or other vendors. We have multiple years of history that we want to load into Cloudability for reporting and p...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information