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Enhance Alert API to support filtering based on alert attributes rather than being limited to only AlertID

Currently, the Alert API allows filtering only by AlertId. This creates inefficiency when building custom automations, since retrieving alerts based on specific fields (e.g., incidentid, alert fields like technology,sitename etc.) requires multipl...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Proactive Support for Long Running Threads

Hi Guys, I raised this ticket last night and as part of the investigation the team identified long running threads that they performed maintenance on, we noticed a very sharp increase in Dev Environment responsiveness and performance. It’s been an...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Under review

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

AWS lambda action plug-in

Allow Workload Automation to trigger an AWS Lambda action as a result of an event - rather than AWS Lambda type job, which is currently available in the product.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review