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Multi-Tenancy to support multiple customers with one CP4MCM Instance

Requirements: Ability to execute / trigger tasks / actions via (e.g. Ansible, etc. ) across multiple customers environments and received the results from multiple customers and display them on the CP4MCM Ability to provide the necessary RBAC struc...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 3 Future consideration

Support for amazoncorretto:19-alpine

We are currently using amazoncorretto:18-alpine docker images for our application builds and we started an upgrade to a new version of gradle plus a new corretto version (amazoncorretto:19-alpine) but then Instana stopped working (no more applicat...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2

Report "One-Shot" Mode.

Support a Report mode where each Section will populate once, and then not refresh when the user navigates between Sections, unless the user specifically requests a refresh, or edits the Report, requiring a refresh. The use case here is large Repor...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DI When adding Widget, Data settings are lost if the user navigates to another configuration tab before pressing Run.

Content creators lose time if they forget to press Run after selecting a list of Resources when creating.or modifying a Widget, and then navigate away from the Data configuration tab. Even saving a Report that has not been Run one time will lose a...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Need to be able to threshold using COUNT even if the object is NOT an entity

Currently, Instana allows you to use a COUNT evaluation within the system rules. This allows customers to COUNT entities that meet a certain criteria. For example, count the number of processes that are running. But, there are number of customer u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Planned for future release

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Password encryption in configuration.yaml file

HI Team, It is one the audit highlights not to have password mentioned as plain text in configuration file. Kindly include feature or way to have encryption password in configuration.yaml without need to purchase separate license. Regards Harpreet
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Set Action Concurrency per Policy

Customer is using Turbo to migrate VMs from one storage cluster to another. They want to set action concurrency via the UI for the automation policy without impacting the global concurrency settings. For their use case, they wanted to always see 5...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration