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Feature to send notification when there is some issue with cloudability agent installed on any of these clusters

In the container cost allocation section, on the monitor tab, right now, we are able to see the status of the list of all clusters on which cloudability agent is installed. It would be great if we can have the feature that sends notification to us...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Support views based on K8s labels in Containers

Being able to provide users with access to only the information relevant to them is important to customers. Customers would like to be able to use label based views to filter to only specific labels in containers. This would filter the list to onl...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be great and it's required as soon as possible.

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be helpful
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 5

Show business dimensions in container reporting

Business dimensions add details that are logic driven vs. directly labeled. Customers want to be able to dynamically add additional information based on K8s labels and be able to filter on those in container insights.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Needs more information

"Last Uploaded" date

As per the design behaviour, the "Upload" step shows upload times in GMT-7:00 (PST) timezone and not in the Customers local timezone (see attached screenshot). This is in our opinion misleading and confusing. Apptio is requested to change this so ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Future consideration