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Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: Deliver a single, Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom das...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Allow Custom/Manual Cost Centres in Cost Sharing Without Requiring Cloud Spend

Currently in Cloudability, Cost Sharing can only allocate costs to values that already exist within the Business Mapping dataset. This creates a limitation for customers who need to allocate shared costs, Marketplace purchases, or platform charges...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Create Concert Helm Chart to deploy into EKS

In this client, applications are deployed in EKS wrapped on helm charts and it is the mainstream way of deployment. We are requesting the creation of a Concert Helm Chart to deploy Concert into Kubernetes environments.
6 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Display Payer Account Name Instead of Linked Account Count When Payer Account is Selected

The customer observed that when a payer account is selected in the multi-select field, the UI displays only the count of linked accounts instead of showing the selected payer account name/details. From the customer’s perspective, this creates conf...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Planned for future release

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Complete revamp of the reports/dashboard home page making the full details of the report visible as a table, adding last accessed and by whom, multiple selection to delete, adding filtering...

Complete revamp of the reports/dashboard home page making the full details of the report visible as a table, adding last accessed and by whom, multiple selection to delete, adding filtering...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Provide all Top-List options in Table "[Application(traces&calls), business metrics, business process...]" for custom dashboards

Hi Team, In the custom dashboard, 1. Add Widget - Currently in the "Table" type of customer dashboard, the datastore dropdown has only 3 values as below. "Events" "Infrastructure & Platforms" "Kubernetes Events" 2. We want to have all dropdown...
11 months ago in Instana / User Interface 3 Future consideration

Need ability to have daemonset deployment for window's cluster

Hi Team, Currently we have instana-agent daemonset to monitor the linux eks server. Also we have window's cluster in AWS where nodes image is - Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Could you please provide the daemonset yaml file to install the instana-...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Add MariaDB Driver Support

The main reason for requesting support for the MariaDB driver is that Prisma’s new driver model (introduced in recent releases) has moved away from the Rust query engine to a new query compiler (client engine) that uses query adapters (https://www...
11 months ago in Instana / Node 1 Functionality already exists