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Support Helm as installation Method for instana operator

We are using the instana-operator to setup and maintain instana. For all of our other components we are using Flux to sync our Git Repository to our Cluster. For most of our Components we are using helm to install them to our cluster. Instana cure...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 6

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Ability to pin left navigation panel open in IT Planning.

Admin related sections of IT Planning (e.g. Configuration), and CT report collections panels can be pinned open using the double arrow near the top of the left panel.   This is not the case for Reporting sections of IT Planning (e.g. Pl...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Future consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

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

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Mouseover to give column explanations

Hi all,  we use a wide range of columns in APPTIO Planning, which at time can be confusing to end users.  We would like to give end users some more input and thought something like a mouseover-functionality would be a great way to show ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Bookmarking Cost Transparency Reports with User preference selections

Hello P&E team,  Would like to share a strong demand from our user's point of view where they would like to save or bookmark one of our customized reports in Cost Transparency on the selection they have made prior to saving the snapshot. ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Functionality already exists

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration