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Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Enable configurable relationship types

Currently, a static list of possible relationship types exist as either Inbound or Outbound: Dependency, Blocker, Relation, Link or Duplicate. It would be value-add to allow removing relation types, renaming relation types, or adding relation type...
16 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
16 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Enable trend analysis of savings by month with filters in Rightsizing ROI

Currently, Rightsizing ROI provides a view of optimization opportunities and realized savings, but it does not allow customers to easily perform month-over-month trend analysis. Customers need to track how rightsizing efforts are contributing to o...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Allow configuration of custom OIDC scopes in Instana SSO settings (e.g. entitlement_group)

Currently Instana’s OIDC integration only supports specifying the discovery URL. Instana always requests the default scopes (openid, profile, email). In our environment, critical authorization information (entitlement_group, authorization_group, s...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review