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Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
16 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
16 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
16 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration

Set Two-Factor Authentication from the Administrator User

What do we expect?: The option to set "Two-factor authentication" (in Settings - User Settings - Personal Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings - Two-factor authentication) in the Instana SaaS Backend ca...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard support a link icon.

Currently, App monitoring dashboard supports BigNumber widget with a link icon. However, BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard does not. This issue be improved ASAP.
9 days ago in Instana / Automation 1 Under review

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 0 Future consideration