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Export csv files in both US and non-US locale

If we are exporting data using a csv, the default number decimal separator is "." However in for instance Europe and South America we use the comma "," as a decimal separator. This means if we export a csv the comma needs to replaced by another se...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Reports, Dashboards 0 Delivered

Expose API endpoint for MCS Service

Would be very useful to expose an API endpoint for MCS so that customers could update via automation their exchange rates via an API put request
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Delivered

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Exclude traces from Java´s endpoints.

Optimizing data ingestion in Instana, customer needs to exclude tracing from Java´s endpoint,
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Delivered

Cloudability support for AWS & Azure China

Our company is using Cloudability globally to manage all public clouds except for AWS & Azure in China. We'd like to have consistent way to manage FinOps in our global estate. Can Cloudability start to ingest data from AWS & Azure China.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 2 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

IsBank wants Instana to support Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version 4.122.x and above. Current support is 4.121.

We are experiencing some problems in monitoring the card system side, one of our most critical systems, on Instana. While the Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version on the relevant servers is 4.122.1, Instana supports 4.121.2 and be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered