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Overwrite Capability for Custom Calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Need overwrite capability for custom calendar. Not able to update our custom calendar after it's loaded once; you can only append dates. It's rare, but o...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Download formula step for easier copy and pasting

If you are building in a branch and you have a lot of formulas to copy over to the trunk, assuming you don't want to merge, you can download the formulas all at once to an excel or other tool.
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Allow for Python/SQL data manipulation

Customer would like to be able to use python or SQL to manipulate the data to create table joins and data transformation.  They are familiar with using those methods a
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration