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Treat proxy installations/upgrades as their own category of install.

At this time, there are two "categories" of installation for RIA/RNA from an internet access point of view: Normal and Air-gapped. This idea is treat installations behind proxies as their own category. The documentation currently barely covers thi...
1 day ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Add option for aggregation function (avg, max) for custom metrics

Hello, Can you please add an option to chose aggregation function when displaying custom metrics? In attached example you can see that metrics are collected every 1 second but when you choose larger time interval then instana automatically aggrega...
1 day ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Add a feature that displays the number of days since a proposed action was generated.

From the perspective of deciding which actions to prioritize, it would be helpful to see the history of past proposals—especially if we want to prioritize actions that have been pending for three months or longer. Currently, the customer exports t...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
9 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
17 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Ability to embed Targetprocess Reports/Dashboards as iFrames in an external webpage

The ability to embed Targetprocess Reports/Dashboards as iFrames in an internal company webpage (i.e. Sharepoint, Confluence, etc.) would help keep stakeholders informed as it relates to the execution of strategic initiatives or projects without t...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Allow reporting on Cloudability Right-sizing recommendations based on last 30 days in addition to 10 days in Apptio BI

The "Cloudability Right-sizing" data set in Apptio BI is locked on showing the recommendations that have been generated using the last 10 days of utilization data. There should be an option to either use the 10 days or 30 days utilization data bas...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted