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Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
3 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to filter container labels with not equals, contains, does not contain

Since containers are not available in reports, customers want to be able filter their container data based on mulitple criteria similar to what they could do in reporting (contains, does not equal, does not contain).
22 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted

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

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...
13 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...
13 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Allow Unsecured HTTP for Ansible Blocks in Ansible Integration

At this time, it seems the Integration for Ansible (Specifically Ansible Tower Block) ensures that the URI going through uses secure HTTPS. The authenticate.js and request.js use a const uri that prefixes HTTPS to the URI. Ansible AWS can however ...
14 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Planned for future release

Global variables for workflows

Introduce global-level variables that can be defined once and used across all workflows. These variables would store values such as notification email addresses, API keys, or shared configuration data, eliminating repetitive setup and reducing mai...
14 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release

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 2 Future consideration

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