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Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements

Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements There are some capabilities in this space that highlight...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time This will make analysing the net effect of any change...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Allow creation of a new custom report collection in Bill of IT

For  Bill of IT module, we are required to create a new report collection for saving and efficiency related custom report and keep them in a single collection for customers. We dont want to use Custom Bill of IT reports collection  for t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Planned for future release

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
over 5 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / User Interface 1

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
10 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
11 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information

BoIT locking invoices

Hi Team, We are looking for a solution to add the BoIT invoice-locking idea to the community. This means that there is a feature to lock the Bill of It in synch with the BoIT invoices issued for the same period. Currently, we are unable to do so. ...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Future consideration

Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration