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Mashups allow native hiearchy in filtered UI

when you add constraints via mashups in looksups for entities (for example for art's you can only select active solution trains) . When you are in a solution train detailled view and you want to create an ART the mashup does not allow to preselect...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Needs more information

add default fields to custom fields constraint mashups

the mashup to make fields mandatory for a specific field change or state change does not allow default fields to be in there (for example "Description". please extend this functionality
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Functionality already exists

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Need fully functional Tag-Based Views in Cloudability, using top-level account tags only (not resource tags)

When using a top-level tag view, the customers are unable to see Insights/Containers, Committment Portfilio, Committment Recs, or Committment Manager. Whne selecting any of the listed options, and error is thrown similar to this one for Containers...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
8 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review