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Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

Request to Include Cisco ACI in Turbonomic Integration Support

Dear Turbonomic Product Team, We have received strong interest from one of our enterprise customers in expanding their adoption of IBM Turbonomic across their hybrid infrastructure. However, a key blocker they are facing is the lack of native inte...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Portfolio

The commitment portfolio functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration