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Support for running Instana Agent with security restriction on kubernets for MQ only

We are looking for a solution to collect all the logs and metrics from MQ deployed on kubernetes pods. We are interested only in MQ, no other IBM products. Our restrictions regarding deployment are: Pods can't have these settings: hostNetwork: t...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Update Rightsizing Opportunities option beyond 30 days for evaluate resource utilization over longer timeframes

Currently, Cloudability provides Rightsizing Opportunities analysis for only 10-day and 30-day periods. However, these timeframes are quite limited for our requirements and may not capture sufficient historical utilization data to identify all opt...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Show Anomaly Detection Configuration for defaults alert.

Cloudability provides anomaly detection alerts by default, leveraging AI/ML models that analyze historical cost and usage patterns. However, when we requested details regarding the underlying configuration and threshold settings used for these def...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

We should get Missing tags count number as per project id level for GCP and On Resource Group level for Azure.

Our requirement is to obtain counts of missing mandatory tags at the project level for GCP and at the resource level for Azure, in accordance with organizational tagging standards. However, the TAM team has confirmed that this capability is curren...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Request for Enhanced Azure Savings Visibility in Cloudability

Hi Team, This request relates to the savings calculations and recommendations currently provided by Cloudability. Upon review, we found that for Azure App Service and Microsoft Fabric Capacity, Azure's public APIs do not provide the required list ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

I want to sort all columns on all screens inside of Targetprocess.

When I have an entity open in Targetprocess like Team, Portfolio, or Initiative, I can sort columns. But when I click on something inside of that entity and it pops up on the right side, I cannot sort columns when that happens. If I am in a portfo...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Need to improve observation of account/billing data usage

Customer has migrated to instana saas service andnow we need a way to - monitor- alertdata ingest programmatically.UI information is not sufficient and cannot be accessed by scripted alerting. To improve observation of account/billing data usage w...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Mask sensitive information from being displayed in the Runbook activity details output for automations

Security risk Our customer has highlighted a security risk within our Runbook Automation application. The output from automations when running an automated or semi-automated runbook displays sensitive information in the RBA UI e.g. A runbook actio...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Option to Ingest Only Host Metrics on Instana Agents (Disable All Sensors)

Summary Provide a configuration option to allow Instana Agents to collect only host-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, etc.) while disabling all automatic sensors and application monitoring. This mode should be configurable either: via E...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Event Chaining for DL's that pull from Dev

Our nightly process requires running multiple datalink groups (in DEV) to ensure data is accurately reflected in our CSM and BoIT extracts. Our DL's are scheduled based on past calc times with a buffer. Sometimes the calc runs so long that remaini...
11 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Under review