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Discovering DR regions such as UAE Central

Lots of customers have workloads located in DR regions and some of these workloads require performance assurance and optimization. It will be valuable to have that visibility over DR regions as some customers also use the workloads there for produ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Consistant resizing for DBaaS on Azure

In the situation were there are 2 SQL DBaaS in high availability configuration ( Active-Passive ). When Turbo gives recommendation to size up or down the Active DB, it needs also to reflect that size on the DR or Backup DB to make sure when there ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

The Instana SDK for EUM must support two methods to cope with security issue.

Our customer, "LG U Plus" has adopted Instana SaaS for EUM(End User Monitoring) this year, 2025.Recently, there's a security issue when the customer's android mobile app deployed with instana sdk for EUM. We, IBM present evidence that Instana sdk ...
7 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Ability to get status of Azure vendor credentials via the API

Currently there is no way for us to be alerted if a specific set of the vendor credentials stops working. We can only get alerted by email if the verification fails. We have had scenarios where the verification status will show verified but the Az...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
12 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Reporting of Cloudability User Metrics for Administrators

As an Administrator of our Cloudability/ApptioBI system I have a requirement to report on my colleagues overall usage of your products to my management. Namely: Cloudability, ApptioBI, and (limited) TBM/Apptio One. This could be console access, vi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 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