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LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Better integration of extended domain entities added by Solutions with native entities

There are some very helpful solution packages in TP that add new entities. However, these often integrate poorly with native entities. For example, we added the Product and Component structure which provides product versions. These add capabilitie...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

AD groups feature should allow assigning a default view to the group

Recently released AD group integration in Cloudability only allows user to share view with a group. We would want to be able to assign a default view to a group, so any new group member would have a default view assigned scoped to the given group.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted