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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

More Elastic Scaling: Remove hardcoded restrictions on maximum observation period

For those customers that want to unleash Turbonomic to unlock elasticity in the cloud, we use the percentile and observation settings to help influence Turbo's decision making. However, it appears there are hardcoded limits to the minimum/maximum ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

Provide a way to disable side car action creation

Today, Turbonomic create automatically groups for sidecar workloads and a policy with recommend only actions. Since Turbonomic can't apply those changes, it's just informational. The problem is customer has thousands of actions that is polluting t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Implement Agent Request Buffering to Prevent Metric Outages

Dear Instana Product Team, I would like to propose the implementation of a request buffering mechanism within the Instana agent to mitigate and avoid metric outages during periods of network instability or high latency. Problem Statement Currently...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter

Title: Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter Detail: We want Instana to capture IMS calls which are maded from client side with WM EntireX Adapter. We would like that client adapter to be supported from version 10.7.0.21.1826 and above.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Submitted

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler

Monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler. PMR (TS016949061)
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

easier Turbo Instance SSL certificate import - no manual edit of the YAML file

right now customers have to edit the yaml file with VI and a big cert file - loads of mistakes are made - and it's complex. and they need the right number of spaces - like 12 14 16. Vmware Vsphere client has an easy .cer file import process - this...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2