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Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Need Security in the TEPS to work in the same way that it does from the 3270 enhanced

Hello, We need to have commands (should be covered by takeaction security elements) that need to get executed under the ID of the person logged on (the resolved ID if using user mapping). However, we then need situations to be executed under the t...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section

This is a request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section: 1. Indefinite Budget Duration: Currently, the maximum budget duration is 18 months. We request an option to set budgets for an indefinite period, similar to AWS Bu...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

In the NMS interface display tables consistently and make number of items on a page fit the page.

The system has many different ways to display tables on the screen. Ideally figure out how many rows fit on the current page and then page through them.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to toggle the X/Y axis date/time for heatmaps

Hi there...I have a customer that would like the ability to swap the X/Y axis for Heatmap widgets. Right now, the date is on the Y axis and the aggregation period is on the X axis. In other products' heatmaps (as the customer is transitioning from...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Lack of error messaging

Several reports when fails results in ambiguous error message and at times grammatically incorrect, need error definitions and what they mean for awareness.
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Instana OpenTelemetry Correlation for Pure OTel Scenarios

We have a pure OpenTelemetry setup where the OtelCollector directly exports data to the Instana SaaS backend, without any Instana Agent in between. Currently, entity correlation across layers like ApplicationPerspective > Service > Endpoint ...
6 months ago in Instana / Integrations 3