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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Needs more information

Provide the ability to restrict user groups to a single specific view

This will ensure particular set of users will only be able to view the data they own / are authorized to view. Right now, since this feature is unavailable, users are able to see other views also
4 days ago in Cloudability / Views 3 Under review

ITM TEP Desktop Client - Add User Session Timeout Options

Adding user session timeout options would allow system administrators to better tailor the TEP client for their organizations access/security standards. Some possible timeout options: Idle timeout (minutes): Specify the number of minutes a user's ...
7 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add an option to trigger Synthetic Monitoring alerts only when failures occur in multiple locations

Allow alert rules to require failures from at least X different locations within a set time window before triggering. This reduces false positives from localized issues, minimizes alert noise, and ensures alerts focus on problems likely to impact ...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Search is not working correctly in eventviewer list with relationship view enabled

There are often scenarios where main events are linked to child events. These relationships can be effectively visualized using the Relationship View in the EventViewer. However, the search functionality does not work correctly when using this Rel...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add Support for Adaptive (Dynamic Baseline) Alerting in Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Currently, the Infrastructure Smart Alerts feature only supports static thresholding, even though the UI mentions “time-dependent” values. These thresholds do not adapt automatically to changes in system behavior over time. Instead, users must man...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

Turbonomic could be enhanced with predictions based on trends and seasonal effects

Currently Turbonomic bases its recommendations/actions on historical data, you can select which previous period to consider, looking at long-term utilitization or short-term utilization to base the actions on. There probably is a limited period ov...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0