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Make the Extendible Domain editor accessible to Partners

Within our current experience using TargetProcess, at a lot of customers the capabilities of TargetProcess are extended with existing solutions to create new entities & relations according to the customer's needs. However, most of the time, th...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Campanion operator support at pod level

Custoemer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.
22 minutes ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Submitted

Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
26 minutes ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Add Connect:Direct API

Canada's 2nd largest food distributor, Sobeys, is interested in pursing a PoC around Sterling SFG certificates and Connect:Direct certificates. API documentation can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/connect-direct/6.4.0?topic=connectdire...
about 1 hour ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Enhance SevOne web server software to generate unique session identifiers using a FIPS 140-2 approved random number generator.

This enhancement would improve the security posture of SevOne by ensuring that session identifiers are unpredictable and resistant to hijacking attempts. Customers who prioritize secure session management—especially those operating in sensitive or...
about 19 hours ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Submitted