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Have more than 5 dimensions that can be added within a plan

Hi,We would like the ability to add more than five dimensions to a plan. This flexibility is important for us, as we often need to filter and analyze data across multiple dimensions to meet various business needs. Different business units have uni...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 4 Planned for future release

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

User cards should be exportable 'as is' so we can control what is seen when another user downloads. We can control what is see via lists or on the User screen, but not the export.

Currently we have fields that we are only allowing Admins to see in views and screens, but a user can still see those fields if they export one of the views that have 'User' as a card. This is information that we would like to keep hidden on expor...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Planned for future release

add conditions to triggers in automation tab

for the moment, it is possible to create a script that is launched based on triggered events. We would like to be able to add more conditions instead of just a trigger to the automated part of the execution of the script. for exemple : we have a w...
8 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future 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

Updates on multiple Policies - Currently only 50 records selected for SelectAll

We are not able to update multiple policies at one time. If we need to enable/disable/archive of policies, currently only 50 is selected at a time. Need to provide option to select more records (ideally SelectAll should select everything in the li...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Data Privacy: Implement a solution to filter PI data from imported tags

Customers, especially in EMEA have data privacy concern if PI data is processed by a SaaS solution. PI data maybe contained in tags Turbonomic imports from Hypervisors or cloud providers. Please implement an option when adding targets that allow i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Native monitoring and Tracing for RUST

Collection of metrics, traces, and context-rich events from Rust-based services, bringing full-stack observability to one of the fastest-growing ecosystems in modern development. Rust is increasingly being adopted for building high-performance, re...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration