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Campanion operator support at pod level

Custoemer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
12 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
13 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Executive Summary for Anomaly Detection Items

The customer has requested a summary of all anomaly detection data be included in the built-in reports as a precursor to the actual data itself. This could perhaps be created using WatsonX.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review