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Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Create New Role for Portfolio Admins

We would like to have a new role established that is able to maintain their portfolio(s) just like an admin role, but limited to their assigned portfolio. This role should help with decentralized administration of portfolio(s). This new role is on...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Not under consideration

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 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. 
over 7 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Ability to remove specific agent type when installation was done with '-agent both' option

We currently have both FTA and DA installed on Windows/RHEL servers but we are transitioning the workload to only use DA. We would like to remove physically FTA from the environment but we are unable to do so when the '-agent both' parameter was u...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to specify any MDM (in multiple MDM environment) as a tdwbhostname value - not only the current active broker

In multiple MDM environment (for example 1 primary MDM and 2 backup MDMs), during dynamic agent installation process we are expected to pass the active broker details as a tdwbhostname value. This complicates the installations and automation as th...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC Driver

We use Fujitsu Symfoware database on mission critical system. This is one of the core component in the system. Could you add the support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC driver. Based on the Fujitus document, Fujitsu Symfoware is based on the PostgreSQL...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration