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Dynamic Workload Console announcement/Informational Banners

Would be nice if you were an administrator of the Dynamic Workload Console if you could add like a banner announcing upcoming Maintenance etc... Would like a simple way of adding the banner while in the web GUI on the first screen. I´ve uploaded a...
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Currency conversion for custom attributes in the Assets tab

Currently, NBV within the Assets tab does not convert when the Global Currency is changed for non-GBP cost centres. NBV is configured as a Decimal custom attribute, whereas Purchase Price is a Money field. As a result, Purchase Price converts to t...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Dynamic Workload Console 10.2 > Script to generate new keystore / truststore

Hi, when I did a fresh installation of the DWC the procedure were to put tls.crt ca.crt  tls.key in the sslkeysfolder. Now this installation generated a Keystore & Truststore.  When I were to create a new keystore / truststore i...
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
23 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Native monitoring support for Proxmox VE (nodes, VMs, containers and storage)

We are an IBM partner delivering managed cloud and infrastructure services. A growing number of our customers and prospects run Proxmox Virtual Environment, often as an alternative to VMware vSphere. Instana has no native support for Proxmox VE to...
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

I'd like Quick Pivot to support pie charts as well.

In the old Report Studio, Pivot supported pie charts, but the new Report Studio does not, which causes an error, so I would like this to be fixed.
6 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Support Object-Type Attributes in Instana JMX Custom Metrics

Hello, Currently, Instana JMX Custom Metrics support only numeric and string values. I would like to request an enhancement to support object-type values as well. Many enterprises in Korea still rely heavily on local application server solutions. ...
13 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Allow custom zone names for cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and Azure sensor in the Infrastructure Map

Cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and the Azure sensor are grouped in the Infrastructure Map by region/location (e.g. us-east-1a, eastus2), and there is no way to rename these zones or assign a custom one. For hosts with an agent this is ...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Additional traceability for who executed a datalink

The customer would like the ability to see who executed a datalink, not just when it was last ran and the results.
about 1 hour ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to create a transform table off of a modelled object, including model results

The customer would like to be able to create a transform table off of a modelled object, including any values resulting from that modelled object's incoming drivers. Today they are forced to create a published table or report off of the object and...
about 1 hour ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted