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Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
4 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
2 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
3 days ago in Instana / Access Control Submitted

Scope Cost Sharing by Payer

Cost Sharing currently distributes shared costs across all/selected Business Mappings, regardless of which payer account incurred the cost. In multi‑payer, multi‑cloud environments, this leads to incorrect allocations. Add the ability to scope Cos...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
10 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Azure mapping of Usage Type and Usage Family change to align with other CSPs

Currently, Usage Type is a concatenation of the Meter Category and Meter SubCategory columns from the Azure Billing Export Report (or the cost data API endpoint). This prevents a one-to-one comparison of CLDY to the source data since a combining o...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
20 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Make short Incident IDs be actually useful

The incident pages display a short ID like "abcd-efgh" for each incident. This is useful for a human to be able to identify an incident quickly (as opposed to the full UUID like 0000019d-637a-6322-0000-0000000411fc) These short-ids are apparently ...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Need RPM install for IDOT OpenTelemetry collector

The customer has standard processes for installation. This includes the ability to bring in packages such as RPM packages into their repositories and scan the installation packages for security vulnerabilities. The IDOT self-extracting tar package...
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

BeeInstana‑Status im Instana‑Operator‑Log anzeigen

uring the deployment of the Instana backend, the operator log records the status of all databases – except BeeInstana. This creates confusion and hampers monitoring. Consolidate all database information in a single placeProvide full transparency d...
2 days ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

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