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Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
20 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
about 14 hours ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Apptio:::All notification and subscription features should support slack

We currently do not natively support slack notifications, and users of Apptio products that are heavy slack users are required to manually configure slack notifications using API's and webhooks. This idea suggestion is to integrate Apptio's notifi...
5 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Instana Agent sensor to connect to the Openshift Monitoring Alert Manager, get the alarms and send them to Instana UI

Dear IBM, Right now in our Openshift clusters we have alarms generated by PrometheusRules and stored in the Alert Manager of the namespace openshift-monitoring. Those alarms only have visibility at the Openshift level and we would like to have the...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Case Summary post indicates the current values of these fields, not the values as they were submitted

From: IBM Support (do not reply) <ibmsupportnoreply@us.ibm.com> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2025 11:47 AM To: Read, Sam <sam.read@landg.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Case closed - TS019792655 - Apptio - 0355650 Case closed - TS019792655 21 July ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request – Bulk User Management in Admin Console

Enhancement Request – Bulk User Management in Apptio Admin Console We are also requesting enhancements to improve the multi-user management capabilities within the Admin section: Bulk Search / Last Login Visibility: We also need an easier way to: ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Deployment of CA-signed certificate

As a customer, our internal compliance policies require a CA-signed certificate to establish a connection with vendor products for the purpose of role assignment automation. Only a self-signed certificate is currently available for Apptio products...
3 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Add this new idea creation link as one of the tile in IBM support main portal

I would think adding the new idea link to the IBM Support portal main page as one of the tiles would be super beneficial for all. I sometimes in the need to be able to submit such and would be great to be able to find this link on the page ,well o...
4 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

The idea is to restrict users from accessing a branch.

More specifically, users can only access the branch assigned by the admin. For example, Employee A can only work in Branch A and cannot access Branch B or C.
9 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted