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Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Kubernetes 3

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 8 Not under consideration

Scorecard can have historical data option

My customer is looking for scorecard data for more than 30 days. As of now in scorecard there is only two option either we can choose look back period of last 10 days or 30 days.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Regarding the Rightsizing Score table on the Scorecard

In the current Cloudability Scorecard, accounts that are not connected are still shown with a rightsizing score of 100. Since connected accounts with no recommended actions are also displayed as 100, this makes it difficult to clearly distinguish ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

AI-Powered Chatbot for Cloudability Assistance

One of my customers - DLA Piper, proposed adding an AI-powered chatbot (similar to ChatGPT) to assist users with Cloudability-related queries and tasks. This chatbot would provide real-time, step-by-step guidance, improving user experience and red...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Sort Vendor Credentials Account Names

There appears to be no sort order for Vendor Account Names within an Account. As an example we have an Azure Enterprise account with 100 subscriptions. The order of the subscriptions listed under the account appears to be random and although you c...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Needs more information

Partner access that removes access to see fully loaded costs and work out the enterprise discount

Within my client they work extensively with external entities [TCS, CTS, WIPRO etc] to manage their infrastructure. They do not want to allow these partners to see the full costs in cloudability that are shown in the dashboarding and insights pane...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Need the ability to customize the collection interval for the k8sensor

A number of customers are ingesting more data than the fair use policy allows and are being charged more for their SaaS environment. They want ways to customize the data that is being ingested. One of the largest sources of data in a number of our...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration