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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...
9 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.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Needs more information

Enhance JIRA-Targetprocess Integration to use Client's SSO provider

The current solution doesn't integrate with Fannie Mae's SSO for client id/token and uses the Atlassian generated token. As this token is not generated by FMSSO, this creates a potential security gap and doesn’t align with our approved Infosec Arc...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Under review

Application Map - unable to view all 'underlying entities' when selecting 'View Details'.

related to case TS018549927. when using tag filtering during manual application map configuration. it is not possible to see the full path and configuration detail of the filter when selecting 'view details'. The only way to see this information i...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 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...

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove default date range from ApptioBI Report

Problem:Right now if an admin or report owner sets a default date range on an ApptioBI report in the global date range selector, there is no way to return to a state where a default date range is not set for that report. You can only update what t...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted