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Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Enhancing the Turbonomic Action Center for Better User Visibility and Efficiency

The Current Action Center Tab in IBM Turbonomic provides valuable recommendations but users often face challenges in tracking the execution status , prioritizing actions and acting quickly on large volumes of recommendations . These enhancements a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

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

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