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Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Missing objects deletion

This should still be in effect if polling fails to a device. Currently if polling fails, objects are never deleted.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Add more information to device status page

When added, last discovered time and duration, object counts (visible/hidden) - currently only some this information is available and all of it is useful when debugging failures and adding new device types. Some is only available with SQL queries ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Exposing Cloudability Cost Details to Backstage using a Plugin.

We want to expose the cloud cost details for applications deployed using backstage or any application deployed in AWS within the DevX portal (using the plug in). https://backstage.apptio.com/
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Needs more information

Tanium Support

Need Tanium support for a client PoV.
about 1 month ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 1 Needs more information

Confusing risk description in Actions

The column Risk description when a file of actions over container specs is exported, shows a mixture of different actions. It's a sum of potential actions but there is no direct correlation between an action and the description that appears in the...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Needs more information

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
4 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Needs more information

change of column from Azure CSP cost report for customer price

We have an environment where the end customer pricing is already configured in Azure CSP. The Azure cost exports contain a column AX "paygCostInBillingCurrency" with the end customer pricing. Cloudability currently only uses the column AU "costInB...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Needs more information