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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Add Connect:Direct API

Canada's 2nd largest food distributor, Sobeys, is interested in pursing a PoC around Sterling SFG certificates and Connect:Direct certificates. API documentation can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/connect-direct/6.4.0?topic=connectdire...
15 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

Propose the creation of contextual menus within the Incident section of Watson AIOps to manage grouped incidents, similar to existing capabilities for individual alerts.

Currently, Watson AIOps allows specific actions to be executed through contextual menus within individual alerts. However, this capability does not exist in the Incident section, where multiple related alerts are grouped into a single incident. Th...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Request for "downloading reports as csv file that Cloudability report provides" that can be provided via Cloudability Premium API

My customer has been using Cloudability Premium as basis of cloud resource and cost optimization managed service for their customers. Which contains Cloudability-SaaS and Turbonomic-SaaS function limited.Regarding on Cloudability SaaS reporting fu...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Request for additional features that can be provided via Cloudability Premium API.

My customer has been using Cloudability Premium as basis of cloud resource and cost optimization managed service for their customers. Which contains Cloudability-SaaS and Turbonomic-SaaS function limited.Regarding on Cloudability SaaS reporting fu...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Request for additional features that can be provided via the Turbonomic API.

My customer has been using Cloudability Premium as basis of cloud resource and cost optimization managed service for their customers. Which contains Cloudability-SaaS and Turbonomic-SaaS function limited. Regarding on Turbonomic SaaS reporting fun...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

provide the `ps -auxww` information for each node

Now Instana lists up the top process for each Linux nodes. But sometimes we need the output of `ps auxww` information of the node. If collecting and recording the historical output of `ps auxww` in the backend is too much data volume, provide the ...
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted