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Improve the executed actions widget

The user experience of executed actions widget currently is poor. It should be completely revamped. Some ideas are: 1) Include the policy name which caused the action to be executed automatically. Right now it just says system. 2) When an action f...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
13 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
13 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
13 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Event closing action in automation

Hi, Currently there is no closing action which fires when an event is closed. We need this to tell the central event management console that an issue is resolved. It will nag the resonsible team until a closing event is received.
13 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

Subscribe feature in comparison report

Hi Team, We need the feature to subscribe to reports where there is compare checked in the dashboards.Presently, it is greyed out.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
8 months ago in Apptio 1 Future consideration

We have requirement to monitor windows OS 2025

It helps customer business by making OS up to market standards in terms of new features and also increase company business Our Customer is Sandvik We need your help by providing with latest fixpack or ServicePack for ITM which supports windows OS ...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration