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.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
over 3 years ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

Allow limited access to Infrastrucure Smart Alerts

Currently only users with unit wide scope access on Infrastructure are allowed to access Infra Smart Alerts, but we'd like to delegate alert configuration to the teams responsible for their limited area only. This means Infra alerts currently have...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows

Our client requires: An intuitive interface for managing maintenance windows (MW): This should allow the organization of time periods during which specific applications or infrastructure are under maintenance. For example, the MW “Business days...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 3 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Planned for future release

Remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relations tab

Amex would like to remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relationships tab, only keep the tab for viewing relations.
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Future consideration

User Import/Export Functionality in Turbonomic (Parity with Legacy ParkMyCloud)

In Legacy ParkMyCloud, administrators can import and export users directly from the UI in Excel format. This capability is very useful for bulk user management, audits, and migrations. Request: Please add equivalent user import/export functionalit...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Not under consideration

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Equals (=) Operator in Smart Alert Threshold

With in the Smart Alerts, for any metrics that holds multiple values and we need alert for only one value and this functionality needs equals ( = ) operator which is not available in Smart Alerts. Having equals operator available for thresholds wi...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration