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VMem Request recommendation mode - resize ABOVE max

Select the bottom to enable/disable recommendation's generation below and ABOVE the VMem Request value. Adding a screenshot of the tool with the below option already available. Would be possible to add the resize ABOVE, too?
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Adding a Javascript API(Function) in Instana Javascript Agent(eum.min.js) for improving SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring

Currently, there's only one function, "autoPageDetection - True" of javaScript agent(eum.min.js) for SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring in Instana EUM. This is quite a good approach to SPA developed via the development framework such as React...
7 days ago in Instana / Observability of AI 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for up to 20 labels for K8s labels

Customers have different teams using different labels and need to account for this variety. Current limit causes some customers to prioritize one team's requirements over another. Some customers need 12 or 16 labels to cover all their use cases.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

support FastApi 0.115.8 and Celery version 5.5.2 to monitor Python nodes

Looks like Instana does not supports this version for FastApi "0.115.8" and Celery version "5.5.2" Instana requires following version only to enable container monitoring for Python docker services We are using instana version as = 3.4.1 when we ar...
3 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Functionality already exists

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

WebGUI runwaapi.sh Password Parameter uncrypted

runwaapi.sh from WEGGUI has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the process table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not ...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Allow granularity to Disable Profiles

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Need audit logs for Sevone NMS

Useful For debugging. To know details such as , what action was performed at which time by which user. Sample API log required: <User> <Time> <Request Type> <URL> <Status> - <admin> <10:45:00 IST> <POST...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists