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Schedule DataLink connectors by working days

Many of our customers manage the upload of the files in based on the working days, for example actuals are available on the 6th working day of the month Datalink allows this to be done only based on days and not working days, which can be affected...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

CostAllocationRuleName to be added in Cloudabilty mapping for Datalink

CostAllocationRuleName field should be added to the Cloudability mapping for the cldy_monthly_azure Datalink connector. This field is included in the Usage Details Amortized and Actual Exports which is scheduled daily.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Datalink Classic Cloudability connector -request for selecting dates for connection

Hello,  can you please add functionality to allow selection of the days of the month on which the connection should run? The request is for functionality that allows selection of the days on which the connection should run until the end of ti...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Add last day of month as variable like {DD}

I want the ability to run a datalink connector on the first of the month to retrieve data from the previous month, with the added capability to have {DD} variable specified as the last day of the last month. For example in a REST connector connect...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Coupa connector missing in Datalink.

Coupa is not supported in Datalink , but it is present in Datalink Classic. It will be the advantage if it is integration is available in   Datalink same as like Datalink(Classic)
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration