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Ability to limit API Access/Generate API Keys

While Cloudability API access keys can be generated by any user, the role assigned to the user with the key dictates what the users can and can't do with API calls. For example, a base CLDY User role can't do anything with business mappings, as th...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

Cloudability Dynamic Currency Service

Rather than use a manual upload of currencies for managing cldy cross platform currencies, it would make sense to use a dynamic service to make an API call and set this in the platform as opposed to a manual upload. API is also a must
19 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

provide the `ps -auxww` information for each node

Now Instana lists up the top process for each Linux nodes. But sometimes we need the output of `ps auxww` information of the node. If collecting and recording the historical output of `ps auxww` in the backend is too much data volume, provide the ...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3