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Allow Instana agent sending metrics to both Instana backend and our streaming layer, e.g. Kafka

We propose that the Instana agent should be capable of transmitting metrics not only to the Instana backend but also to our streaming layer, specifically Kafka. This dual transmission capability will enhance our data processing and analytics capab...
13 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

End to end transaction journey monitoring.

Multiple banking customers have been asking for end-to-end journey mapping across their payment ecosystem. Their main requirement is to be able to stitch a single business journey across multiple hops, each of which uses a different identifier. Ex...
13 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Persistent filter from Infrastructure to Analyze Infrastructure

Hi team, When we navigate on the Infrastructure section and use Filters, we expect that the Analyze Infrastructure Button that is present in the UI will work the same way as it works for Applications, where we can jump from every level (Applicatio...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Analyze Infrastructure - Name Display improvement

Hi team, when we have entities with long names, they are not fully displayed in the Analyze Infrastructure View (see screenshot attached). In this case, as we identify the entities by the Suffix, we don't see it at all in the result table. We are ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Filters for Kubernetes Labels need to support all operators to help teams get insights on K8S clusters that have labels with similar or dissimilar values (Contains, Not Equals, Does Not Contain)

We have teams use Kubernetes labels that follow patterns to help them group similar clusters together (for example: MFG-A1, MFG-A2, ...). The current Filter for Labels on Container Cost Allocation only support the "equals" operator which causes a ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

More customization to Goal Lines based on Metadata values

Performance Metrics in many visualizations allow to use Goal Lines, set their colors and units. However, this same level of customization is not possible for Goal Lines meant for Metadata values. Feature parity for them would be extremely useful.
14 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Content for cost model of modern containerized microservices and API-first architecture

The technologies deployed by companies today are no longer well represented and modeled through a lens of Physical to Virtual machines viewed on a monthly basis, with a VM hosting a single application. While this is the traditional Apptio Cost mod...
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Saved Views on Tabbed Reports

Recently saved views was introduced, but often breaks/does not save/displays errors on complex tabbed reports. Hard to explain to users which reports it might work on vs broken.
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted