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Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
6 days ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

NFS support

Please extend your code to allow pods to use NFS without creation of PV. support documentation can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
20 days ago in Instana 1 Submitted

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
26 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
22 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
22 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
18 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Integrate GitHub Annotations into Anomaly reporting

Develop a GitHub integration for Cloudability that allows annotations from GitHub to be displayed directly in anomaly reports.This feature would link code changes, such as pull request merges or deployments, to potential shifts in cost profiles or...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted