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Integration between Concert Workflows and Ansible Automation Platform

Is useful because actually Concert Workflows is integrated only with Ansible Tower (that use different API). Using the Ansible Tower authentication and building blocks in Concert are not working with Ansible Automation platiform (Looking at the An...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 2 Delivered

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Delivered

Add ability to apply cost object permissions for a user to all plans

When adding a new user, the global cost object permissions are setup and will apply to plans created afterward. When adding a new user, we always want to grant them access to existing plans. Currently, this involves editing each plan's settings to...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 3 Delivered

Kong API Tracing

In Instana, Kong API gateway monitoring is limited in basic metrics moniotring but not support for tracing. However, from our Instana In Instana, the current monitoring capabilities for Kong API Gateway are limited to basic metrics and do not supp...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Delivered

Add Terraform Provider Support for Instana Mobile Application Alerts

Instana currently allows configuration of Mobile Application alerts through the UI and API. However, this capability is not available in the Instana Terraform provider, preventing organizations that rely on Infrastructure-as-Code from automating a...
13 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Turbonomic should be able to natively delete pods that exhibit some type of failure in order to complete the node suspension process and release worker nodes.

Hi Team, One of IBM's largest and most important Customers is requesting a Product enhancement so that Turbonomic should be able to natively delete pods that exhibit some type of failure in order to complete the node suspension process and release...

OpenShift (OVE or OCP) documentation and images to deploy appliance

Customers migrating from platforms such as VMWare to Red Hat OpenShift would like availability of documentation and images necessary for deployment similar to OVAs into VMWare.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Delivered

Call Turbonomic API using SSO/SAML credential/token (not local user)

We can only execute APIs using a local user or Oauth. So, we have 2 problems: a) local user can't be protected like an SSO user (like when using Azure AD for conditional access); b) Oauth authentication in Turbo for APIs makes the Turbonomic an Oa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 3 Delivered

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Delivered