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Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Request for additional features that can be provided via the Turbonomic API.

My customer has been using Cloudability Premium as basis of cloud resource and cost optimization managed service for their customers. Which contains Cloudability-SaaS and Turbonomic-SaaS function limited. Regarding on Turbonomic SaaS reporting fun...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide capability for Managing Server Trap to monitor specific Thread pools.

Currently the Managing Server (prod: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Diagnostics) has a capability to define an Alert to monitor Thread pools in a Trap definition. Current design is that it will monitor all thread pools, and there's no function t...
10 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

provide the `ps -auxww` information for each node

Now Instana lists up the top process for each Linux nodes. But sometimes we need the output of `ps auxww` information of the node. If collecting and recording the historical output of `ps auxww` in the backend is too much data volume, provide the ...
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

List up the belonging teams for each person in the User page

As an administrator, it's tedious work to open each user and check the role or team that person belongs. please list up the team and roles in the User page of the access control, instead of the only number of role which is displayed now.
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Assigning user with multiple roles or multiple external user groups

Enterprises are getting complex and role of a FinOps, DevOps or SRE is getting more fragmented. With this direction in the organization, a FinOps team member may want to have a readonly/observer privilege on all the resources, but more actionable ...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted