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Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable)

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable). for example : https://my.domain/accounts/324345/status want to mask the path variable - 324345
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Not under consideration

Add filters/ordering to assignments in detailed view

When a lot of users are assigned to 1 entity it is hard to track the order of adding them or sorting. It will be a good idea to add a sorting like with adding entities.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Identify duplicate snapshots

Policy to identify duplicate backup snapshots in the public cloud so that Turbo can delete them
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt password while performing the core installation of Netcool/Impact

When trying to install the Netcool/Impact core Server and GUI components, we see we are unable to use the encrypted passwords in the silent response file, when we define the encrypted passwords in the silent response file, we see accounts are gett...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Natvie Prometheus support

Instana supports Prometheus in a customised way to transfer and work with Prometheus metrics. Basically, Prometheus metrics can be collected and transferred to Instana. But core features like Metrics Labels do not work with the Instana backend in ...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 3 Not under consideration

Topology Manager Observer for Ericsson Orchestrator

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, performance and topology and the only missing part is topology.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
over 5 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Free Trial Subscription

A Free trial would allow users to assess the value of a subscription, helping them determine if the investment is worthwhile. This approach is likely to attract more subscribers who are genuinely interested in learning. As a result, IBM would not ...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Help & Training 0 Not under consideration