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Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Increase Data Insight PM Widget CSV Export data point limit to 900,000

TS018776038 (PC) - Issue with CSV Export in Data Insight – Empty file with large dataset. The issue with the empty CSV file is caused by a hard limit in DI's underlying API (v3), which is designed to return a maximum of 300,000 data points per req...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

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

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

Hide system-generated message in the validation rule UI

Amex raised this idea of improving the validation rule UI to have an option to hide the system-generated message that appears below the business-oriented error message, which currently shows the native entity name and ID? While the rule ID is grea...
14 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Allow for manual save on Rich text Fields or Disable autosave

In certain usecases clients wish to restrict certain characters i.e ($%#) from being used in rich text custom fields. We are able to build VRs around restricting these characters, however from a UI perspective users are stuck in a VR message loop ...
14 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted