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Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Provide "Effective" Rate reporting (not just on demand)

In both ABI and Cloudability rather than just show the potential "on demand" rates for rightsizing opportunities, show the "effective" rate taking into account the customer discounts / EDP / RI / commitments to make the outcomes more real for cust...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
13 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Format improvement on PDF export of custom dashboard widget

Hi team, please consider including more information within the axes when a custom dashboard is exported. This is a key missing part in order to understand the graphs being exported, and right now we cannot see any values displayed, which makes it ...
13 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
21 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

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

List of all ApptioBI Reports to which logged in User is subscribed

This would either be a new menu item that provides a list of the reports that the user is subscribed to, or a new filter on the reports page that enables you to select those reports that you are subscribed to (ideally in conjunction with other fil...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

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