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Increase max dimensions available on a Cloudability report

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 dimensions for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 dimensions provides. We currently support 15 dimensions in Apptio BI r...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Add Treemap visualization to Cloudability dashboards

A Treemap widget/visualization would enable teams to see a heatmap in a cloudability dashboards. A treemap would also enable a more comparitive view
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

The Instana SDK for EUM must support two methods to cope with security issue.

Our customer, "LG U Plus" has adopted Instana SaaS for EUM(End User Monitoring) this year, 2025.Recently, there's a security issue when the customer's android mobile app deployed with instana sdk for EUM. We, IBM present evidence that Instana sdk ...
18 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
18 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Subscribe feature in comparison report

Hi Team, We need the feature to subscribe to reports where there is compare checked in the dashboards.Presently, it is greyed out.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 3

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration