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For security reasons it should be possible to block the use of Service and/or Access tokens

As tokens can be used by another user to access Targetprocess with the access & permission profile of the user to which the token belongs, this poses a serious security risk. The request is to foresee a possibility to block the use of Service ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other / User Management 0 Under review

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Simultaneous Execution Limits per Policy - Allow setting of number of parallel executions at a policy level

This is very useful in limiting the number of actions kicked off under the same schedule at the same time. Right now all actions which the policy applies to will kick off at the same time. This means that multiple members of the same service clust...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

New Dimensions for Resource Type on reports

to have a new dimension for reports that shows resource type. Currently having to use Item Description and Resource ID as a deminsion and then filter with one of those by using the (contains) operator to get to the resource type is a messy way of ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration