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Cost Management Support for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Context: Cloudability currently provides dedicated cost visibility and allocation capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). This includes workload-level attribution across clusters, namespaces, deployments, and labels, enabling cus...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
12 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
5 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Topology REST API for the Service Now

We need to expose the Topology REST API for the Service Now team to consume. However, the authentication of the API is limited to HTTP Basic, and current the only available username/password pair is from a K8s secret. As confirm by this support ti...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review