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Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Access Admin integrated with Usage data reporting

Integrate Access Admin data with Usage to provide reporting that includes role granted/changed, last time logged in, environment accessed, persona, and customization for persona or organization data. Use case 1: Our security protocol requires user...
8 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
8 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Allow Custom SQL in TEP/TEMS accept SUBSTR, COUNT(*) and GROUP BY SQL functions

The purpose of this idea is to allow TEP/TEMS run queries that summarize the DB2 z/OS thread status by using only the first 4 characteres of the package name. These first 4 characters indicate the application name the package belongs to, so this w...
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Add Aruba Access Point Metadata upon Device Discover

Upon discovering Aruba Controller devices in NMS via the Wifi plugin, Aruba Access Point (AP) devices are also added to the cluster. However, some useful metadata is missing which does get included from other manufacturer APs. This is affecting th...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Multi-Entity Reporting and Filtering Capability

Currently, there is an inability to create in-platform reports within TargetProcess that have more than 1 entity in its source data, as entity specific filtering in the report data fields is not allowed. The ability to create reports that utilize ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration