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Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Service Composer to expose values exported by an Ansible Job Template activity (via set_stats artifacts) as linkable output parameters for downstream activities, matching the existing behavior of Terraform and Helm activities.

Description: In Service Composer (IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.11.1, Infrastructure Automation), only Terraform and Helm activities publish output parameters that can be linked to downstream activities. The Ansible Job Template activity has input par...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Out of the box field for Country that maps regions

There are many regions across the globe that customers can deploy their infrastructure. It would be good to have an out of the box field that maps each region to the country where the infrastructure is. All that is needed is to use the Region fiel...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Namespace-Scoped Agent configuration

Based on my research, it is not possible to provide different configurations for agents deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. Currently, the Instana Agent operates primarily on a cluster-wide configuration.We propose/request a feature to enable differ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Add a 'Alternate Name' for DI Reports and have it available as Report Name alias or similar

As per title, in some scenarios, customers might require additional columns or attributes to refer to a report. We already offer similar features in other areas of the product like device's alternate names and even Tenant Display names. Having a s...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Under review

Decimal Formatting Control for Waterfall Charts in TBM Studio

We are requesting the ability to suppress decimal values on Waterfall chart data labels within TBM Studio's reporting views. Specifically, we would like monetary totals (e.g., Total Monthly Spend) to display as whole numbers rather than with decim...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Logs for all levels (blocks) in concert workflow

The client need to export logs of workflow in any format files (for ex, csv). They want output of all blocks used in workflows in logs so that they can debug in detail. Currently, this feature is not available. The Client cannot use debug feature ...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration

OpenStack monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For OpenStack technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only. (Like the implementation of Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
12 months ago in Instana / User Interface 3 Planned for future release