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Domain Management -> "API Keys Disabled" checkbox FAR too easy to click

There was an issue lodged by the customer that their Datalink Connections were all failing and they didn't know why. Upon Engineering investigation, it turned out that API keys had been disabled and working with the customer to identify how, user:...
9 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Custom Report sharing

Today Reports that come with the product is shared amongst Tenants. When a user in a Tenant run a report, the report is run with that Tenants context in mind, and for example a Virtual Machine report displays the VMs the Tenant has access to, and ...
over 1 year ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Permissions to Restrict Only Check In or Check Out

We have multiple developers of varying levels working in TBM Studio. We would like some of these users to have the ability to Check Out tables and reports in TBM Studio so they can create a copy or see additional options, while restricting their a...
10 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

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

Would like to give user(s) access to their own project in TBM Studio without also giving them access to the main Cost Transparency project.

Users in other areas of the business will be able to utilize Apptio without gaining access to confidential data or compromising the integrity of another user's project or the main CT project. It will help drive exposure and expansion of the applic...

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration