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Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Jenkins embeddable build tags

https://cdn.livechat-files.com/api/file/lc/att/6880831/84c0965717a0023c2e4ca4e7bddc5759/image.pngBasically I would like to have similar tag as with Jenkins embeddable build tagsIt would be needed inside Target process and possible outside targetpr...
about 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Enhancement of Instana with Historical Incident-Based GenAI-Powered Recommended Actions and Import Functionality

This request aims to enhance Instana by leveraging historical incident records(tickets) to enable Gen-AI-powered recommended actions.The goal is to import and analyze past incident response data to generate accurate and timely recommendations base...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Git Plugin Profile automatically

We have hundreds of BitBuckets repos in our company. For all of them we want to create Git Plugin Profile (see screenshot attached). Doing it manually for every repo would be overkill. It would be very helpful to have some way to automatically cre...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Filter to be included in links

The email function of sending a link (with Global Filters as part of the email link) to a user or sharing a report with a user would increase Apptio usage at a leadership level instead of taking screenshots in PowerPoint. Suggestion: allow filters...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 2

Ability for users to manage email notifications.

Ability for users to be able to opt in or out of receiving emails from Apptio.  
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

IBM APM Citrix Agent to support https connectivity for the citrix xenapp/Xen Desktop

Citrix XenApp/Xen Desktop is configured with https protocol. Currently we are facing a connectivity issue as IBM APM Citrix agent does not support https connectivity to the citrix application. So we request to provide a new version of IBM APM Citr...
about 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration