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Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Having a scroll bar, pinned feature, reorder tabs in TBM studio

Our admin team would like the ability to have a scroll feature, pinned feature, and the ability to reorder table tabs added to the bottom of TBM studio.  When performing configuration or troubleshooting, or data loading, the amount of tabs ne...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Versioning function

It would be great, if developer could see, immediately and without checking out the table, the table version including FROM date info and version history.
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Future consideration

Increase Shared Rules Values field character limit

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules'. - The values field is limited to 50 characters only. This means I might be able to add 2... or maybe 3 namespaces only. - Given that I need to add...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration