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I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

New text box for Validation and Automation Rules

The Validation and Automation Rules, need a note box. Since the Description is really the title, there is a need for a text box for general notes. Nothing fancy, just a field to put notes in that you don’t want in the Description box.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release

Add more info for the display of "No Data Available" to distinguish whether data is unavailable or there is no data.

For example, with"Nesessary Investment" widget, if there is none of Investment related actions, it shows "No Data Available"....but it should be showing as "No proposal" ... I would like to be able to distinguish between them. (Data should be avai...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Realized Savings Details - Add column - Date

In the Realized Savings Details does not have a date column both in the UI as well the Excel report. The suggestion is to add to add a new column to add the Date Information in this view
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Custom header support Required for Oracle IAM OIDC integration - during the OIDC token exchange phase, the Oracle IAM server requires an additional custom header (see TS020460410), not possible in DI or NMS?

Enhance or future-proof sign-on compatibility.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Cloudability MongoDB connector should support cluster tags

Customer wants to use the cluster tags and they want to use in cloudability.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration