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Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Dates as columns so we can see month-over-month changes ( Side by Side view )

Cannot do today but checking on status here. Bala: Can we validate if the pivot table capability in Apptio BI can support this ? I am not sure if CLDY datasource currently is supported. But something to validate
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 7 Planned for future release

Chart formatting capabilities

Formatting options to include Title font sizes, bolding, colors. Ability to change contract for Cldy. Bar/line color options so we can create widgets that always have AWS in Blue and Azure in Red for example.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Provide option to enable or disable the "Total" row in the table widgets

The newly enhanced UI with the "total" row added for evey widget consumes a lot more space than it used to earlier and sometimes adds unnecessary spaces in between the data. It would be great if you can add the "total" row as an option, which the ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

The compare function in Reports is not configured correctly

The compare function is designed to work the way by default, considering the "Previous Period" date range. Previous Period, here refers to considering the number same of days (period) in the current selection for the comparison. Hence the results....
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

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

instana saas hosted agent to support aws emr serverless plarform

need to add aws emr serveress platform. it is not supprted based on following link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-installing-configuring-serverless
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release