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Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
9 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release

Custom Business Metrics on True Cost Explorer

I have had a few prospects and customers ask if they could use custom business metrics in True Cost Explorer since the BMs are their main way of reporting out spend.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Planned for future release

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Have a way to duplicate a Group (from the GUI) into a new Group with a different name

We would like a way to copy/duplicate individual Group. This will be very useful especially for Groups that has complex filtering or has lots of static members. This will not only make group creation much faster in certain cases. (e.g. if the new ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add Instana built-in metric for table spaces status (normal or abnormal)

I would like Instana has a built-in metric for table spaces status, the return value represents normal or abnormal. After this built-in metric available, then I can trigger an alert based on this built-in metric. Here is db2 reference about table ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Being able to add AWS observer using IAM roles instead of access and secret keys.

Customers have polices to changes keys every 90 days. it will be nightmare to change observer keys every 90 days. it will would be nice to add AWS observer target using IAM role. This is a must requirement from DISH Networks to do a POC.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Operations Insight - Create Patterns with Override config (NOI Related Events)

We would need to be able to create patterns when we override the Event Identity in the advanced tab of the Create New Configuration in the Configure Analytics portlet. Currently, it is limited to the Identifier column and while it works for certai...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release