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Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

View Only Contracts for Cost Center Managers

We need the ability to have cost center owners have View Only access to their contracts tab. Only specific teammates within ITP edit for IT and not the owners of the cost centers. @Nitin Ningaiah @Greg Hahn @Bob Kerhin @Sally Garski @Dina Buszkiew...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Service Costing/Landing Page - Report Button Visibility feature not working

We would like to set the visibility of report buttons in landing page(service costing) based on the role of business users. There is an option to set visibility by buttons but this option is only working for Admin Role, the option is not working i...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Is a defect

ServiceNow Datalink for fm_expense_line and cost_plan

Customer (global leading trading company) is requesting to add standard datalink with ServiceNow fm_expense_line and cost_plan tables with date range. The customer is designing to create budgets and actuals in SNow and need automatic connection wi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Would like to give user(s) access to their own project in TBM Studio without also giving them access to the main Cost Transparency project.

Users in other areas of the business will be able to utilize Apptio without gaining access to confidential data or compromising the integrity of another user's project or the main CT project. It will help drive exposure and expansion of the applic...

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Allow Custom Report Collections in Vendor Insights

We are building some custom reports in the Vendor Insights Project, that need to be added as new Report Collections in Vendor Insights. Currently, Vendor Insights project doesn't allow us to create/add custom named Report Collections to it. It wil...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration