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Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Functionality already exists

Support in-place resource resize without restart

Kubernetes at version 1.27 released a feature to change cpu and memory from containers without trigger a restart. Use this mechanism will boost Turbonomic usage on cloud native targets and minimize the requests for GitOps integrations.Source: http...

Add support for SAP Jco connector

Adding the ability to trace the entry spans from SAP Jco connector increases the versatility of Instana. Customers can benefit from tracing additional technologies and this keeps Instana competitive in the market against it's competitors.
6 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower

Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower. Sysdig exporters are available for both Redis and RabbitMQ. A Bank is seeking similar type IBM cloud workload monitoring for DataPower.. Monitoring and around CPU, Memory, I/O Disk, Monitoring the num...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Concurrent logging on DASH portal enabled but limited to a configurable number

Users require having concurrent sessions enabled and set to never expire. However, with this configuration, the number of active sessions can continuously grow, potentially leading to memory leaks. To address this, we need an option to limit the n...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Anomoly detection for incorrect pricing being received from vendors

Recent pricing anomolies in dev/test SKU pricing for certain Intel SKUs in North Switzerland resulted in 'incorrect' optimisation opportunities being presented to customer. Whilst the fault was with Microsoft and their pricing, the impact was seen...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Future consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

List View Visual Encoding for Cells

We want to use the visual encoding feature for some lists. But we don't want to colorize the complete row; we only want a cell in a particular color.Example:Instead ofWe would like
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Integrate Cloudability Governance Feature with GitLab

Description: The Cloudability Governance feature is currently limited to integration with GitHub upon its release. Details: Our enterprise is interested in the Cloudability Governance feature and requires integration with GitLab. Without this capa...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 1 Planned for future release