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For security reasons it should be possible to block the use of Service and/or Access tokens

As tokens can be used by another user to access Targetprocess with the access & permission profile of the user to which the token belongs, this poses a serious security risk. The request is to foresee a possibility to block the use of Service ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other / User Management 0 Under review

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Ability to schedule the enabling and disabling of calculations in Calc Management

Currently to either disable to enable stage calculating through Calc Management (Project Calculation Management) this is needed to be done manually. The idea would be the ability to set a schedule to either enable or disable stage calcs for indivi...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1

Add variable table at the folder level

Allow the ability to add a variable table at the folder level. We have variables defined for workstations, but those workstations support multiple functional areas, and most functional areas will override at least one default from the workstation....
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Limit Exposure of Business Mappings

Some Business Mapping steps are intermediary and are used to create data subsets that are included or excluded in other final business mappings to help with logic challenges or re-usabiity (include vs anti). These intermediary Business Mappings id...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration