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Enable Apptio BI Report Subscriptions for Non-Cloudability Users

Currently, only Cloudability users can subscribe to Apptio BI reports. However, there are scenarios where customers want to include members of their management or leadership teams, who are not Cloudability users and do not wish to become users, in...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
11 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

When duplicating an ApptioBI report, have the option to "bake in" any selected global report filters into all of the widgets as pre-visualisation filters, removing set filters in process.

There are several occasions when I take a generic report and wish to save it for others to use, but want to give them a report with fixed filters and less options. The idea is I have a generic report, I preselect the filters that configure what I ...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Page level filters

In the case of extensive reporting we might have different data on each page of the report. Thus, we need to have a page level filter, similar to dashboard level that only applies to current page and when using it does not affect other pages in th...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
21 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Expose container name as part of Kubernetes cost information

We would like to be able to generate dashboard based on Kubernetes costs and we need finer granularity than cluster name. It would be really helpful to also have the container name.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted