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Sync user deletion from Active Directory to Instana

When integrating Instana with Active Directory, both Instana and AD user accounts must be manually deleted when a user leaves the organization. If Instana could automatically remove users when they are deleted from Active Directory, it would reduc...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Ability to flag/unflag comments

Summary: Currently, comments are used on math tasks to ask questions to the test team. Frequently comments/questions are missed, as they get buried in other comments/follow ups, or within threads. We are requesting a mechanism to flag/unflag selec...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 1 Not under consideration

Time delta between different entity states

Use case for illustrating the need for tracking the time delta between different activity states --> KPI/efficiency metrics. Currently we have several dates for an activity: I need a way to capture the following:* How long did it take between t...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

Sorting by top n results broken down by month or day, should show top n results for each time period

Currently in Apptio BI, if you create a report with a single dimension and single cost metrics, you can sort the data by top results based on the metrics or dimension values. Once you select the "View by" field to any other than "none", you loose ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Support to MongoDB Atlas (SaaS)

Hello ! Will be very helpful to a general context of our costs if Turbonomic add as possible target our MongDB Atlas in SaaS Today only have RDS AWS, SQLServer, MYSQL and Oracle Have MongoDB will give a full path and full information about costs a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Add support for multiple billing accounts per cloud provider

We are trying to add 2 AWS master billing accounts to Turbo and found out that Turbo does not support that configuration. We are also trying to add 2 Azure EA's and that is not supported either. We need Turbo to support multiple billing accounts p...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Functionality already exists