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Limit Exposure of Business Mappings

Some Business Mapping steps are intermediary and are used to create data subsets that are included or excluded in other final business mappings to help with logic challenges or re-usabiity (include vs anti). These intermediary Business Mappings id...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Off button for log entry

Customers want to have control to stop log intake in case they are approaching the maximum log intake purchased. To date, there is no mechanism to stop logs from being sent to Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

AWS lambda action plug-in

Allow Workload Automation to trigger an AWS Lambda action as a result of an event - rather than AWS Lambda type job, which is currently available in the product.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration

Provide manual sorting order for matchTokens values entered into a rule via the UI

matchTokens processing on event reception halts after the first resource matching a token is found. This provides an implicit ordering of token values to be entered from most-specific to most-generic. Achieving this is trivial when creating matchT...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Security: Provide Option to restrict Logins to one per user

Currently, AIOps does not prevent a single user from logging in multiple times using e.g. different browsers and/or different hosts (phone, laptop etc). This is desirable for many use-cases but violates a single-login-per-user policy. Many organis...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 5 Functionality already exists

MS Teams Integration Multi-Channel Support

Currently, incidents are being sent to a single MS teams channel. We have different teams that manage different devices and alerts on those devices. The ability to set which incidents go to certain channels would allow our customer teams to choose...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review