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API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

immediate update of Event Viewer for object server changes

The problem is that the SQL-based right-click functionality, which performs an immediate refresh of the Event Viewer, does not support lo additional logic. For additional logic, a script-based right-click functionality is required which does not p...
2 months ago in Tivoli System Automation 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Get Last Filter Value

When using the Get Last Filter Value function in HTML for a drill report, we want the function (or a new function) to show the user the value that they just clicked to perform the drill. In theory, the thing they clicked is the exact last filter a...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Under review

Roadmaps without actual start date display

Our company creates high-level product roadmaps at the beginning of each year, using packages as a key component. Currently, the roadmap displays both planned and actual start dates for each package. While tracking deviations from the plan is valu...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Under review

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review