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Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Creating views on the fly

As a FinOps, I would like to be able to dynamically create a new view for each existing statement in my Business mapping. It's currently quite painful to have to create views manually. Creating a view every time the BM statement is = "True" would ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Selectively reprocess data for only specific Business Mappings and date ranges.

Currently, IBM Cloudability lacks the ability to selectively reprocess data for specific business mappings. When a business rule changes for one business dimension, users are forced to reprocess all mappings, even those that were previously accura...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Allow customers to reprocess business dimensions

Currently, if you make any changes to a business dimension and you want those changes reflected prior to the current month, you have to submit a support ticket. I regularly submit 1-3 tickets every month to reprocess our business dimensions. Pleas...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Additional data required while monitoring Oracle DB

Customer is interested to view more details while monitoring Oracle Databases using Instana. 1) SQL ID CPU Usage section shows all details except CPU Usage %. Also it would be useful to expand details about each Instana ID. 2) TOP CPU Consuming Se...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Surface Mongo organisation name in addition to ID

In MongoDB cost data integration, only the Organisation ID is surfaced as accounts in the vendor credentials but we have both the friendly name and id in the Mongo cost data. please can we surface the friendly name also so we do not need to create...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration