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Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Planned for future release

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Need to be able to send out reports in PDF/CSV by email

Dear Colleagues, we have a tender where customer is interested in sending regular reports from Instana to management with statuses and current numbers. We have ability to create custom dachboards and generate PDF/CSV of them, please consider addin...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

an option to send PDF export for Dashboards by email and a schedule this email

adding an option to Instana to export the dashboards and send it by email to non-Instana users. this will be helpful to share dashboards with managers, stakeholders and non technical team. also adding the option to schedule this report to send a m...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Kubernetes Metric Agent API Key Rotation

Cloudability includes functionality to showback Kubernettes cluster costs for GCP (GKE) and Azure (AKS). In order to gather the required metrics to calculate cluster costs, an agent must be installed on each cluster. As part of the agent installat...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release