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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...
7 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

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...
7 days 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...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

limit the editing permissions for "teams" and "roles" to the team user belong to

[1] select a team when inviting users same as role[2] limit the editing permissions for "teams" and "roles" to the team user belong to.we want to set an team administrator for each team, but the team administrator can also edit other teams, so we ...
7 days ago in Instana / Access Control 2

Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release