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Support API Key Authentication via HTTP Headers in Concert Workflows

The current design of Concert Workflows APIs requires API keys to be passed as query parameters in the URL. This approach exposes secrets in access logs Ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/concert/2.3.x?topic=using-apis Current (supported) behavior: ...
7 days ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

GCP cloud service agent being able to collect managed service tag\label information

Currently in GCP when using a cloud service agent to monitor managed services, the respective managed service tags\labels cannot be collected and sent to the instana backend with the corresponding managed service. This makes grouping services usin...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

RBAC for alert visibility, actionability, and group/incident behavior

[Full description of desired product behavior is in the attached file] Customers require desired an operating model that separates who can see an alert from who can manage an alert. A user may need broad visibility into alerts for awareness, coord...
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Request to enable flexible custom and rolling date ranges in Turbonomic Dashboards beyond the current predefined options.

Introduce functionality in Turbonomic Dashboards that allows: Custom date ranges defined by the user (start and end dates). Rolling date ranges that automatically adjust relative to the current date/time. A user-friendly interface for selecting an...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Planned for future release

Show version via labels/annotations for the instana agent operator

Currently when downloading the instana agent operator from github (https://github.com/instana/instana-agent-operator/releases) the version is only contained in the image tag in images.txt Looking only add the manifests in instana-agent-operator.ya...
15 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Collect Azure VM tags in addition to VM metadata

Instana currently collects Azure VM properties automatically within AZURE_METADATA (vmId, name, vmSize, and location), but VM tags are not included. Tags on other Azure resources are collected and appear in the UI correctly - apart from Azure VM T...
20 days ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

Sensor support for opensearch application

I am working with potential customer verizon. customer's application team is looking to monitor opensearch application which is not supported by Instana officially. They are keen to monitor this and we have suggested to try elastic search sensor w...
21 days ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Filtered import to include existing and planned

With the new filtered import we would like to see the ability to filter on the labor tab for existing and planned to then use the replace all functionality.
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Planned for future release

Policies:  the ability to restrict Temporal/Seasonal policies based on Alert Restriction Filters, and restrict policies from Metric Anomalies based on Metric Restriction Filters.

Policies: the ability to restrict Temporal/Seasonal policies based on Alert Restriction Filters, and restrict policies from Metric Anomalies based on Metric Restriction Filters.
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Expose AWS CUR lineItem.legalEntity Field

Request is to surface the AWS CUR field lineItem.legalEntity field within Cloudability as a standard, queryable dimension available for reporting, filtering, and allocation logic. This field identifies the legal entity responsible for the transact...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Planned for future release