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Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to populate Tenant with a default in login page

In multi-tenant environments without OIDC, the tenant input is currently blank is not automatically populated with an available default. This could be set by administrators.
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
10 months ago in Instana / Azure 3

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Add an API endpoint that returns CLOUDABILITY_API_KEY for a given cluster ID

We use Cloudability to monitor our kubernetes clusters, however the deployment manifests returned by calling this API endpoint - https://api.cloudability.com/v3/containers/provisioning/ {cluster_id} /config (where {cluster_id} is the ID of a kuber...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted