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    Native Kubernetes/OpenShift Secret Management for Kafka Sensor Credentials

    Problem Statement Kafka environments frequently require SSL/mTLS authentication using truststores, keystores, and associated passwords. Security best practices prohibit storing these credentials in plaintext configuration files. Customers attempti...
    2 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Under review

    Support Multi-Cluster Kafka Monitoring from a Single Instana Agent

    Problem Statement Organizations commonly deploy multiple Kafka clusters within a single OpenShift or Kubernetes environment for production, non-production, business unit separation, or regional isolation. Today, the Instana Kafka sensor does not p...
    2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

    Add fiscal-year and prior-year date range options

    Our organization frequently compares performance across fiscal years. The date picker should provide additional predefined ranges, including: This Fiscal Year Last Fiscal Year Same Period Last Year These options would simplify fiscal-year and year...
    2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

    IBM Instana monitoring for Mule Runtime 4.x.

    Our enterprise integration platform currently runs on Mule Runtime 4.6.7 and includes critical workloads initiated through HTTP Listeners, Pollers, Schedulers and messaging queues. Instana currently provides infrastructure, JVM and partial generic...
    3 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Planned for future release

    Any report/dashboard should have global filters intact when opened by URL by other person after sharing

    Today global filters go away when you share any dashboard's URL, and this leads to much of chaos while working on something urgent like incidents.
    3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

    Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

    In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
    12 months ago in Instana / User Interface 3 Planned for future release

    Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

    In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
    12 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Share Cloudability users analytics

    Add to the Cloudability admin console a widget with usage by our users (analytics)
    over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Future consideration

    Automating actuals update within a plan

    We’re updating Planning data daily via this method: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/apptio-commercial/planning-standard/saas?topic=costing-import-baseline-plans-from-apptio Is there a way to automate this? Seems kinda silly to make a human press a but...
    2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

    Limited Optimization Coverage

    Optimization recommendations are currently available mainly for EC2, EC2-Other, S3, RDS, Lambda, Redshift and Elastic IP.No optimization insights are available for EKS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, EFS, DynamoDB, MSK, Load Balancers, AI services and o...
    2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Needs more information

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