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Provide Ping, SNMP Walk, Traceroute tools to a network device

user should be able to perform these tools from a corresponding NMS where the network device is onboarded and provides the output. These can verify the connectivity for troubleshooting
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Include more services under RightSizing preferences

Currently you can only do few customisations for filtering the recommendations in EC2 and S3, we want more services under the preferences umbrella so that we can customise what we want in the recommendations in a better way.For Example: we don't w...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Develop Container ROI Policy to track Container Optimizations

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, it's imperative to track & report on all savings achieved. We are currently unable to track any container optimization savings as there isn't an ROI policy available for Containers.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team? Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that would allo...
over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Future consideration

Allow group filtering against another group

There is currently no good way (outside of tag modification) to quickly exclude an entity from Group A when including it into Group B. This results in a cumbersome process to exclude an entity from one group while including it in another group. Ad...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Ability to Restrict Edit Permissions for Budgets in Cldy

Currently you cannot restrict who can edit a Budget in Cldy. It would be helpful if we could restrict users so that only the creator of the Budget (or assigned people) could edit the Budget, while other users could just utilize the Budget. This wi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration