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WebLogic GridLink DataSources Monitoring

Customer is having many WebLogic instances in production environment configured with GridLink Datasources. This feature is required to monitor using Instana.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Custom metadata for definition objects

We would like the ability to add custom key/value metadata to all object types in the database. We utilize a lot of custom scripts to monitor and maintain our IWS system. This is useful in scripting scenarios where you need to make different decis...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
12 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Search: Remember last filters. Save filter presets. Recent searches as suggestions

Don't set Order to 'Relevance' by default. Don't set Projects&Teams to 'All' by default. Please add the ability to save search presets for faster searching. 
about 7 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Cloudability support for AWS & Azure China

Our company is using Cloudability globally to manage all public clouds except for AWS & Azure in China. We'd like to have consistent way to manage FinOps in our global estate. Can Cloudability start to ingest data from AWS & Azure China.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration