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email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Failed missing node should be displayed in the InfrastructureMap to attract attention

This is the request from the banking client after they executed the failure-recovery test of DB node. This request is not for how we can notified on the failure, but for improving the display of the Infrastructure map. -- During the test, they dis...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

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...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

URGENT - Add "NESTING DETAIL" and "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" parameters to RestAPI used by WAPL jobs in order to mitigate slow response times related to networking. this IDEA has been suggested by IBM support

UNIPOL needs to use DWC REST API queries in order to monitor his TWS scheduling infrastructure. Specifically, he wants to check the status of a jobstream in the current plan, and all the jobs it contains. In case a job is not COMPLETED, we launch ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

DWC needs to show what sub-page is currently selected

Currently, if you open Monitor Workload and execute several queries, creating multiple sub-pages, there is no visual indication that shows what page is selected. It only highlights the top-level Monitor Workload page.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Add support for CyberArk integration using DAP/Conjur

Current password vault integration with CyberArk is only using CP/CCP - we would like to request DAP/Conjur support to which is used by majority of the accounts already stored in our CA safes.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Introduction of SSO/SAML based authentication for AWS plugin in addition to current access/secret key method

all the current AWS/Amazon plugins are currently supporting only AWS access/secret key IDs - we would like to be able to use SSO/SAML based authentication as it is de facto standard in our organization. Most of the access/systems/platforms are usi...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration