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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

Customer configurable ticker / banner that can be displayed to inform users of service / known issues

In the event for example that an issue is discovered with a gap in data, or an anomoly, it would be useful for us to have the capability to type a message that would be displayed as a banner / ticker when customers logon.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Add Status Indicator in CLDY UI to confirm that cost data for previous days is fully uploaded/processed

It would be useful to have an indicator in CLDY UI which confirms the status of billing data uploading/processing. Currently users have to create reports (e.g. KPI or trend graph) to compare costs on a daily basis by Vendor (e.g. yesterday cost vs...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support multiple organizations in GCP during credentialling

In GCP a construct called organizations exists. These are similar to Azure tenants whereby a domain name is wrapped around a set of projects. We need to be able to support multiple organizations during the credentialling process in Cloudability. A...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Quick Add - hide entities based on the role permissions

Users who don't have role permissions to add entities still see the whole list - the idea is to hide the entities that they can not add from Quick Add form.
about 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 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

Need Security in the TEPS to work in the same way that it does from the 3270 enhanced

Hello, We need to have commands (should be covered by takeaction security elements) that need to get executed under the ID of the person logged on (the resolved ID if using user mapping). However, we then need situations to be executed under the t...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 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

Add support for SCIM in SevOne NMS

SCIM is a protocol which is intended to simplify authentication and integration for accounts across multiple entities. SevOne does not currently support this protocol, however it is an open standard used to easier management of users for various t...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration