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Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Time Zone should show UTC with Parking schedule

In PMC we have detailed time Zone, Example:Asia/Kolkata(+5:30). In Turbonomic, we have only the Time zone(Asia/Kolkata) i.e. no correspnding UTC+ time is shown. Can the time zone set in Turbonomic match the configuration option shown in PMC where ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

SAIOM - make it possible to authenticate on port 443 to eliminate non-secure connections

This will eliminate vulnerabilities related to non-secure connections on port 21 to the OSA-ICCs on System Z. If this cannot be remediated, we are forced to discontinue use of the product.
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation 0 Submitted

Discover devices with DHCP configuration

Hi Team, Devices with DHCP configurations pose challenges for availability monitoring due to their dynamic IP addresses. Without a mechanism to track these devices effectively, UFM may lose visibility or fail to maintain consistent monitoring when...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Needs more information

Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
3 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to import 'external financials' for "Labour" and "Assets" tabs in the "Planned" section, just like "Other" tab

We complete a large amount of centralised loads of data for forecasting purposes into "Other" tab, and it allows for greater transparency and control of data quality as these lines are locked for editing by a user. Unfortunately, the same function...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Column width settings fixed

We would like to have the column width of the different attributes in a list view be fixed. Right now you always have to set the column sizes over and over again every time you go back to a list view. This is super annoying.
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review