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On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Allocate static costs or credits to a specific business unit to ensure actuals against your budget is accurate in CFP

We have a couple of active scenarios: #1 we've got vendors who contribute to cloud cost that have no formal integration into Cloudability. In those instances the costs stay the same every month and its charged to a specific business unit, we want ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Planned for future release

Have a simple interface for bulk-adding targets

When adding new features, like initial install of multiple vCenters or adding Databases to an existing installation (pretty much any type target that may have multiple entities), on the "add target" screen have the option to select a CSV file for ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
12 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Future consideration

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

add cluster mode enabled redis trace to redis sensor for rails application

support case Case number TS019348227
6 months ago in Instana / Ruby 2 Future consideration

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Under review