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DI Default Permissions to Public/ReadOnly when a "Template Report" is created.

Report Templates created today default to Public/ReadWrite, which allows ANY user to modify them. While this may make sense in very small deployments, larger organizations that use DI need to control who updates shared directional content like Tem...
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Under review

DI Schedule/Deliver a Report to Multiple Recipients With Distinct Variable Settings

Data Insight is designed to promote reusability of Reports using Variables to configure a standard Report based on the Consumers' needs, but Reports cannot be reused if different Schedule/Recipients need different Variable settings to make the Rep...
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Data Insight Variables - Wildcard Search

DI Report consumers would save time and effort when navigating a complex dropdown list in a Variable. Today, we can do simple text match searches, but if there are many matches, we still end up scrolling a searching by eye. Providing a wildcard se...
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
4 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 4 Under review

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
3 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
19 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted