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Improve Blacklist command to include wildcards or RegEx when stopping Instana from instrumenting a process

The current Blacklist process only supports complete parameters. This is useful but fails to account for processes that contain only commonly used parameter or common processes that can refer to different paths or have different installation locat...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Add Kinesis Firehose Support to instaawsv2

We have a data ingestion application written in Go, which performs validation and enrichment before sending into a Kinesis Firehose endpoint. Although several other AWS services we use are instrumented automatically using instaawsv2, for Kinesis, ...
4 months ago in Instana / Go 3 Future consideration

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 8 Future consideration

Automate Advanced Credentials for new accounts under set up credentialed Payer

We implemented our process to apply the approriate permissions to all new accounts in the payer. But we still need to verify new accounts in the API or UI. Bulk actions is a step in the right direction to allow multiple accounts at a time. But for...

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Provide description input option for promotions to production in TBM Studio

It would be useful to have an option to describe a reason or purpose for each promotion to production, similar to how we can provide a check in description when documents are checked in. Currently there is a "Reason" column in the promotions view ...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Submitted

Introduce a flexible activation delay or scheduled start time for Synthetic Tests,fully supported via UI, API, and the Terraform provider,to prevent premature alerting during long-term system onboarding and manual configuration phases.

Why is it useful? When onboarding new systems or environments via Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Synthetic Tests are typically provisioned at the very beginning of the lifecycle. However, a system is rarely "live" the exact moment its infrastructur...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Request for the addition of a feature in the treemap report that allows the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) to be aligned based on the same fiscal year.

Regarding the treemap report, due to Apptio’s current specifications, it is not possible to align both the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) based on the same fiscal year. Therefore, we would like to request...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Planned for future release

Enable Hierarchical Business Mapping Using Existing Business Dimensions - all hierarchy levels

Many organizations use ServiceNow CMDB as the system of record for application ownership and business alignment. After integrating Cloudability with ServiceNow, we can automatically retrieve metadata such as: Enterprise Business Group Application ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 17 Future consideration