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Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus should support additional fields for Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property

If integrating the OMNIbus gateway for message bus with Kafka the property Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey only supports either the field ServerSerial or ServerName.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.0.0?topic=file-properties-command-line-opt...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Under review

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Future consideration

AWS Fargate service support

We are currently migrating from EC2 to Fargate. Since the functionality is already available in AWS, via the "Compute Optimizer" feature, I would like some advice in Cloudability on how to optimize the capacity of my ECS Fargate tasks. More inform...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review