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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

Prevent user to alter configured Budget cap.

We enter budget forecasts every year for each AWS account and Azure subscription in Cloudability. We would like to prevent users from altering configured budget thresholds. If any changes are required, then the Cloudability admin can update the bu...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under 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

Filter based on cost center or Business Unit in Rightsizing recommndations

this will help me to find with business unit or specific cost center
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

More Enhanced reporting for Anomaly Detection

Customer is able to see multiple anomalies in his tool. It's difficult for the customer to identify from which cost center the anomaly is coming from. Currently in the tool if we create a report for a specific anomaly, we have to add dimensions ma...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

Localization of report emails into Japanese.

The general users in Japan typically do not understand English, leading to a situation where they do not review the reports provided. As a result, the customer has raised this feature request. From the perspective of increasing Cloudability suppor...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to add additional Columns to Rightsizing endpoints

Each client has unique custom tags and mappings. When creating new reports using data from Cloudability (Cldy) in TBM Studio, we often encounter mapping gaps and limitations due to restrictions on adding Resource IDs in Studio. For example, while ...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Not under consideration