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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Ability to sort/filter an entity/group's Automation Workflow 'result of policy' table by the value column

Today, if you navigate to a VM > Policies > Automation Workflow, you'll see "Attribute", "Value", and "Active Policy". You have to read through them row by row. If we're able to add the functionality to sort and filter the table, we can quic...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Simultaneous Execution Limits per Policy - Allow setting of number of parallel executions at a policy level

This is very useful in limiting the number of actions kicked off under the same schedule at the same time. Right now all actions which the policy applies to will kick off at the same time. This means that multiple members of the same service clust...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Allow reporting on Cloudability Right-sizing recommendations based on last 30 days in addition to 10 days in Apptio BI

The "Cloudability Right-sizing" data set in Apptio BI is locked on showing the recommendations that have been generated using the last 10 days of utilization data. There should be an option to either use the 10 days or 30 days utilization data bas...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration