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Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use Cloudability Views with Anomaly detection - for end users

As the customer have multiple end users where users login with restricted access using views. In a lot of cases, users are unable to see any anomaly but the Admin users are able to see anomalies (without applying any view). The issue - for end use...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

64-bit integer for Serial Number for an objectserver

It will be helpful in production environment, when we reset the objectserver and with same serial/serverserial the alerts will be getting overwritten in the reporter db, by this we will be loosing the alerts with the same serial number in the repo...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Crash analytics can be implemented using Flutter

I run a PoC in a client's environment using Instana SaaS tenant. Out of several scenarios there is this crash analytics. As the applications built using Flutter framework for dart programming language, their developer expects that Instana crash an...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 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

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

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

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