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Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Search Box

I would love to have a "search box" where a user can enter text and the report will return the list of relevant records, such as relevant applications. this will work just like the "ehancement idea" search box on this idea page. there are no repor...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Report Collections - Move OOTB Reports

https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/APPTIO/UploadedImages/qEsfhSaQZ6GlQxNK9E8m_2023-02-15_9-51-11-L.jpegCurrently, OOTB reports assigned to collections are not able to be moved. The only workaround to this is to copy the report, move it t...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 7 Planned for future release

Ability to share reports to user in Saved state (Send Email Functionality)

User applies certain filters in the report , wants to share it with a colleague to view similar data . Shares the saved report using Send email functionality. However, when the colleague opens the shared link , the saved filters remain for a momen...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release