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Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration

Turbonomic support for IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises)

We request Turbonomic to support IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises) as a storage optimization target. We would like to monitor the capacity and the actual usage of the storage and be able to take optimization actions as needed.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Not under consideration

Need to trace core banking application based on Temenos

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Temenos software as a core banking application and they miss tracing of the application. There are few traces: - com.temenos.t24 - com.temenos.tafj (com.temenos.tafj.runtime.statements.jStatements:READ) pleas...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Import/export functionality for Account Groups (Organize) to update them in bulk

With over 400+ account groups in Cldy env, it is difficult to identify which Account groups are tagged with the required group values and which are not. Tried the same using API but not very helpful. The idea here is to have an Export option - whi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 3 Not under consideration

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for additional hypervisor Proxmox Virtual Environment

All VMware customer are currently evaluation options to mitigate the effect of the price hikes for the VMware products after VMware was acquired by Broadcom. One option usually evaluated is migration to another virtualization platform/hypervisor. ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Provide manual sorting order for matchTokens values entered into a rule via the UI

matchTokens processing on event reception halts after the first resource matching a token is found. This provides an implicit ordering of token values to be entered from most-specific to most-generic. Achieving this is trivial when creating matchT...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration