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Allow configuration of custom OIDC scopes in Instana SSO settings (e.g. entitlement_group)

Currently Instana’s OIDC integration only supports specifying the discovery URL. Instana always requests the default scopes (openid, profile, email). In our environment, critical authorization information (entitlement_group, authorization_group, s...
17 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Include- for Windows OS (Pagefile) utilization in your RAM sizing . Also in the Linux OS space (Swap usage) - "RAM sizing , stack-improvement"

When I review size down actions related to a VM running Windows OS / RAM usage I find that I disagree with some of those size down actions b/c they don't factor in Page file usage isn't factored into this decision . A hypothetical example of this ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
4 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Expose View Details to Non Admins

We would like our end users to have visibility into how a View is created, but without giving them rights to create/edit views. This will empower them to fully understand how a view is defined. We should give read-only access to View tab to non-ad...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Sort field names in the Hide/Rename step of the Transform pipeline

The Hide/Rename step should either have an option to sort field name ascending or descending, or it should just auto sort ascending. When a long list of field names are hidden, it make sit challenging to scroll through to see if a specific field i...
10 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

more nuanced anomaly detection report

similar functionality to aws cost explorer. edit time range, more details around cost spikes by services, ability to drill down.
18 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review

Ability to verify the expiration date of the “update access keys” from the Hardware Management Console

This feature enables the verification of the expiration status of the “update access keys” within the Hardware Management Console. It ensures that administrators can monitor and prevent interrupted access to system updates and hardware management ...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review