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setup limits by default to t8c-operator

Telefónica customer is very sensitive to the security and stability of its systems.

IBM i agent to collect ILE/RPG/CL/Cobol tracing information (iDoctor light)

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
13 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

RFE: Customer would like the ability to input comments that is over 1600 characters OR provide a threaded comments at the line item level for their Asset impairment process

Customer needs to keep historical decisions for their Asset Impairment process as the asset goes through yearly impairment of useful life. The impairment is at the asset level. The comments serves the propose of tracing the decisions for impairmen...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration