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Receive a newsletter about Instana changes

It would be useful for our customers if we send a (choose one) weekly, bi-weekly or monthly newsletter with all related to Instana, similar to the one that we receive internally at IBM.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Under review

Automated Certificate Policy Updates Based on NIST SP 800-52 and Improved Signature Algorithm Detection

Title Automated Certificate Policy Updates Based on NIST SP 800-52 and Improved Signature Algorithm Detection Solution Value Statement Enable IBM Concert to automatically update certificate policy rules based on NIST SP 800-52 guidance and improve...
3 months ago in Concert 0 Under review

Restricting access to Turbo platform

Due to security requirements, the customer has requested to block any user from accessing the Turbo SaaS platform from IP addresses other than those they specify. In customer's other systems, IP whitelisting is implemented through the instance’s f...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Build a dedicated topology observer for Solarwinds

Some customers of us (like ENI, ENEL, ...) have Solarwinds as network management tool and it would fine having the related observer to import the topology from it into the WAIOps platform they have installed like we do for other similar tools from...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Change commitment portfolio to not show incomplete data

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully...