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Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

API for creating hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions

It is cumbersome to have to manually create hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions esp when the mappings change more than once a month. Please provide an API for creation of hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

JIRA Archive functionality in TargetProcess

Jira has implemented Archiving functionality which works as a "soft delete" and makes the item view only. For synced items, you are able to modify the TargetProcess entity, and the change is not applied to the Jira item. Additionally, JIRA achieve...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Submitted

Improve Cloudability Usage Reporting

We are now starting to receive a monthly file that contains Dashboard and Report views from Cloudability. However, the files are missing important data that would make them much more useful. Dashboard file: The Dashboard file contains the date/tim...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 5 Future consideration

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Allow execute actions on the disk attached to an instance that is in an unmanaged instance group

There are large potential savings to update the disk type per the Turbonomic suggestions. However, turbonomic UI states "the volume is attached to an instance in an instance group. Scale actions for this volume can only be executed in Google Cloud...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 5

Save our filters so you can apply them easily when we changed dashboard/report/widget

Not possible at the moment and this is not planned soon. It is possible to use the URL to hard record part of the filters... But this is not an interesting solution.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration