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CSA supporting AWS Compute service (Apart from EC2)

It is useful and beneficial for customers who have usage across different AWS compute service (example lambda)
2 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Needs more information

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...
12 days ago in Instana / Logging Needs more information

Segregation of Duties / Principle of Least Privilege for Instana Backend management

The self-hosted Instana Standard Edition (Linux) backend should have actions requiring root authority cleanly differentiated from those for application management. This would allow application management to be delegated down to a service account, ...
12 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Needs more information

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...
13 days ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

Instana Backendをsystemd管理できるようにしたい

現在、当環境にてInstana Backendを利用しておりますが、運用性および可用性向上の観点から、systemdによるサービス管理を実現したいと考えております。 つきましては、Instana Backendをsystemdで管理可能とするための設定方法、もしくは公式に推奨される手順やベストプラクティスについてご教示いただけますでしょうか。
13 days ago in Instana / User Interface Needs more information

Calculated Forecast Fields

Currently, Employee Benefit Expense is automatically calculated based on benefit rates by location entered in the Configuration page of Apptio. The calculation applies those rates to the salaries. Example: If Chicago benefit rate is 20% and Salari...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Standard Edition preflight check must report all known prereq issues

Currently, when the preflight check is executed, it only reports a subset of the problems. For example, I ran the preflight check on a brand new machine Red Hat with nothing setup. This is what got reported. ⚠️ the host for installation type demo ...
14 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

Flexible Visualization of Budget Variance Details

CFP (Cloud Financial Planning) lacks a good way to visualize the Budget Variance Details. Ideally, all dimensions of the plan should be selectable / Filtrable to construct a chart - they are currently in the Table, but to visualize it the only opt...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Needs more information

Allow Admin Users to change the system-generated Line Item Codes in Planning Actuals so they can align them to Budget lines

Our Finance team is currently tagging actuals against budget lines in a different project before using the ADM to ingest the data into Planning. However, when new fields or schemas are introduced, it generates multiple system-generated line item c...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Add to instana some feature to IA for analize trend for monitoring IBM i

a great feature to instana could be add some connection or permit to connect to MCP Server to analice some trend of the monitoring.
24 days ago in Instana / IBM i Needs more information