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Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
1 day ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Apptio Costing:::Data Quality Evaluations tied to detailed use cases from the Value Framework

A challenge when implementing Apptio Costing is knowing whether or not the data attributes you have available from your company's systems are sufficient to accomplish your goals in Apptio. It would be helpful to have a data quality assessment buil...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Content for cost model of modern containerized microservices and API-first architecture

The technologies deployed by companies today are no longer well represented and modeled through a lens of Physical to Virtual machines viewed on a monthly basis, with a VM hosting a single application. While this is the traditional Apptio Cost mod...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Allow the date range columns to be translated in custom reports.

OOTB report is translated the date range columns , but Custom report is not transrated the date range columns . I would like to be able to translate the date range columns of custom reports. the date range columns:you can add to a table: Months Ye...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Clear All

When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Improve quality and detail within error messages

to help understand what the problem is and to identify potential workaround and solutions
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review