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Ability to use wildcards/regex to ignore/blacklist processes from monitoring

Hi, During the rollout phase we need to exclude a serious amount of batch jobs and other processes, most of the java based, from monitoring/tracing. The documented process: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=cha-configuring-ho...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

On account (subscription) closure or suspension in Azure or AWS, provide functionality to automatically archive or delete the vendor credentials (user selection).

Useful: This is useful for anyone that works in an environment where change management is difficult (most large enterprises) and being able to specify a setting to automatically scavenge (cleanup) close accounts or subscriptions would save a lot o...
about 19 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Support HTTPd tracing on IBM i

Dear colleagues, our customer runs WAS infrastructure on IBM i and manages Apache HTTPd servers using WAS admin console. We discovered that Instana doesn't have support of IBM i platform for HTTPd tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-obser...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Dynamic Calendar year filter at data source level

We would like to request support for applying a dynamic Calendar Year filter at the source level, instead of hardcoding a specific year within report filter criteria. Currently, to meet reporting requirements, we have implemented a workaround by h...
about 23 hours ago in Targetprocess / Reports Submitted

Support for tracing IBM MQ on IBMi

Dear colleagues, Following our documentation in terms of IBM MQ tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=mq-tracing there is a way to configure User Exit for different platforms but IBM i. In MQ documentation it is said sin...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Add IBM Fusion HCI as a target

Currently the Hardware IBM Fusion HCI is not supported to add as a target in Turbonomic. In order to have a holistic view on the infrastructure in terms of capacity that would be really important to have.
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Submitted

Enhancement Request: Generate Actions Based on Core Operating Hours

Currently, Turbonomic generates actions based on data collected across all time periods, including nights and weekends when system utilization is typically low, rather than focusing on periods of higher activity such as weekday business hours. As ...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS Submitted

Introduce a built-in Targetprocess diagnostic and client-side logging capability that allows users to easily capture and securely submit troubleshooting data, including HAR files and browser-side errors, directly from the application without requiring advanced technical knowledge or Support case management

Support and Engineering teams frequently rely on HAR files and client-side browser diagnostics to investigate issues related to application behavior, performance, integrations, and reporting. However, obtaining this information today can be cumber...
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Other Submitted

Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

To include "limited" network protocol into dependencies graph

hi, "potential" customer wants to see the link between databases server at the netwok topology diagram, aka service dependencies graph.i understand network connections could be messy, so if instana agent can limit and configurable, i.e if we can c...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted