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Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
24 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add "Product/Physical Processor" field to CDI data feed to support comprehensive cloud cost analysis

This additional field is required alongside Product Family to complete JPMC's reporting requirements during their migration from MCC to CDI/ADM. The field supports their advanced cloud billing setup described as "the most advanced" implementation.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Product/Capacity Management" field to CDI data feed for complete cost management reporting

Third required field to complete JPMC's CDI migration requirements. This field works in conjunction with Product Family and Product/Physical Processor fields to support their comprehensive cloud cost reporting framework.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

pouvoir utiliser JSUNTIL et OPENS dans une meme regle de planification.

une application ETA a besoin de créer un schedule qui verifie ce qui suit: le schedule peut se declencher entre 22h et 03h du matin. Le schedule doit se déclencher seulement sur reception de fichier etzjo0aa.etzaaqq* Si le fichier n'est pas arrivé...
4 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Branches in CLDY

Currently the only environment where we can do limited testing and which is quite costly to maintain is Sandbox. In ApptioOne TBM Studio there is possibility to do Brach which is exact copy of the system. In that copy we can do conf changes and ch...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Budgets Data Log

Currently we need to raise an incident to IBM in order to see who updated the Budgets and when as we as admins do not have that view. This is time consuming for IBM and for us and sometimes when we do bulk uploads that can lead to data loss and a ...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
10 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted