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Provide out of the box reports on device/object discovery

As SevOne does auto rediscovery of devices regularly, provide OOTB reports on the following: List of new devices discovered over the past 24 hours or other pre-determined time frame List of new objects discovered by device List of deleted objects ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Possibility to cancel the export and download of reports

Hello, Enhance feature to cancel the preparation and download of a report to avoid the usage of resources and download large files to manage, when the filters were not properly selected. Thank you
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Option to provide description or details to the newly created dimensions

Hi Team, In the cloudabiloty reports the out of the box dimensions have the "?" next to each of them that provides the details of that particular dimension. Similar to which please help us by providing an option to enter the descriptin for the dim...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use Cloudability Views with Anomaly detection - for end users

As the customer have multiple end users where users login with restricted access using views. In a lot of cases, users are unable to see any anomaly but the Admin users are able to see anomalies (without applying any view). The issue - for end use...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

64-bit integer for Serial Number for an objectserver

It will be helpful in production environment, when we reset the objectserver and with same serial/serverserial the alerts will be getting overwritten in the reporter db, by this we will be loosing the alerts with the same serial number in the repo...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review