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When SSO is enabled, feature to send invite email to add users should be disabled

Once SSO is enabled, in order to get access to application users need to be part of AD security group. But if any user (even outside the organization) is sent invite to join Instana, he/she can create his/her own password and can login to the appl...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Improve the ITNM mustgather script and provide in the code with future fixpack releases

Currently the itnm_data.pl mustgather script is provided in a technote available for download here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/collect-data-ibm-tivoli-network-manager-ip We would like to see this included in the code so that it is available...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Add OpEx and CapEx contracts in IT Planning Contracts tab

For our budget administrators, it is necessary to properly populate and organize their contracts tab in IT Planning.  By adding the functionality to allow for having both OpEx and CapEx contracts (and not just one or the other) they would be ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

APM ISM performance issue

When an APM ISM agent (on the Linux platform) has a large number of active profile elements (200, 300. etc.), after restarting the ISM agent, profile deployment, or any change of profile elements, the ISM agent takes a long time (2-3 hours) to con...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Delivered

Include utilization data in the Action that Turbonomic send to ServiceNow

We need to show justification on the Action submitted to ServiceNow by Turbonomic. e.g. for VM resize Action ....we will need to be able to capture (on the SNOW ticket) the utilization data of the VM (current utilization AND the predicted utilizat...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 4 Delivered

To be able to monitor PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / PHP 4 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

FR - Smart alerts on mobile apps

Hi team, Currently smart alerts are available only on websites.Is it possible to add the smart alerts functionality on Mobile apps? https://instana.io/s/17TPqlXdT1q2u8FylOqDJw Thanks in advance Clarisse
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Delivered

Use portworx for DB2

Today it is necessary to use local storage support for DB2 while all other PODs use Portworx. Apparently this is due to performance limitations. I dont believe this is a valid solution as this adds more complexity to the system while removes featu...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered