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Add option to add EDP to effective rate

Add option to add EDP to effective rate. This would show a more accurate savings cost.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

include support for the Kerberos/SAML authentication method

NTLM (Incl LANMAN, NTLMv1 and NTLMv2) was depreciated in Jun 2024 from Microsoft’s official announcement. Microsoft had released a MS Jan patch 2025 that enforce to remove the use of NTLMv1 in Win2025 servers. Microsoft may provide a MS patch to r...
8 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately.

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately. If we restart Instana Agent it gets the time from the Instana agent restart as "Started At"
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Need an efficient feature, or path (e.g. API endpoint) to export Raw Flow data from SevOne for consumption over Kafka. SDB does this, but only for metrics. Attempts to use SevOne-act (as a way to work around the SDB limitation) result in long export times, would not scale, and would not be supported by IBM.

For SevOne customers using a Data Lake architecture, who want to store/process Raw Flow data, for downstream security or other analysis/anomaly detection would find this highly valuable.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) 1 Future consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to expand tables within PDF Report

Provide the ability to expand on the tables embedded in the PDF report. Specifically for tables that have subtotals configured
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Ability to create multiple rightsizing ticket for the same resource

Currently if a customer creates a rightsizing ticket for one issue and act on it. Now after 30 days , customer receives another recommendation for the same resource , there is no option to create a separate ticket as it will still show the previou...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Integration with Grafana Cloud for enhanced rightsizing recommendations

Currently, there is an integration with Datadog that retrieves additional data points and enhances the rightsizing recommendations. It would be great to be able to integrate other open source observability tools such as Grafana Cloud for the same ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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