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Instana OCP agent/K8 Sensor support for clinet-facing Listeners use of SASL_SSL for IBM Concert Operate Kafka Lag data collection.

Currently instana agent/K8Sensor supports clinet-facing listeners does not support SASL_SSL to pull the consumer group lag data from IBM concert Operate Kafa. We need to add this feature so that we can monitor and view the lag data.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Filter rightsizing recommendations by lease type

Rightsizing recommendations currently can't be filtered by lease type, causing recommendations that if followed would result in waste by failing to consider the cost impact of the unused reserved instance.
2 months ago in Cloudability Submitted

SevOne API Monitoring and Observability Enhancement Request

Request: Add API monitoring and observability capabilities that provide visibility into API usage, performance, resource consumption, and client activity. Historical API usage trends would be most important. Suggested Metrics and Monitoring Capabi...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Planned for future release

Running a plan to resize node pool SKU in kubernetes against current work loads to better optimize the SKU that is running in that specific node pool

I would like to be able to run a plan against a specific node pool in a kubernetes cluster. When the plan is complete, it would provide you a recommended SKU to change the node pool to (rather build a new node pool using a different sized SKU) bas...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Submitted

Business Metrics Auditability and Change Tracking in Cloudability

Enhance the existing business metrics framework in Cloudability by introducing columns to track the creator and last updated user of each metric. This will provide auditability and allow for better evaluation of metric usefulness from a FinOps per...
4 months ago in Cloudability Planned for future release

Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Allow multiple config files for the OTEL collector

As well as the regular tracing and host information collection, the config file contains all the log parsing and processing information for every log file that the collector must work. A customer I am working with who is looking to migrate from IT...
11 months ago in Instana / Logging Planned for future release

Increase Data Insight PM Widget CSV Export data point limit to 900,000

TS018776038 (PC) - Issue with CSV Export in Data Insight – Empty file with large dataset. The issue with the empty CSV file is caused by a hard limit in DI's underlying API (v3), which is designed to return a maximum of 300,000 data points per req...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring Future consideration

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting