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Allow limiting access to Data Insight OOTB reports.

In multi-tenant deployments, the ability to limit what reports a user/tenant is presented with is key to being able to simplify the user experiance and reduce the effort for limited users or tenants to see only what they need. Allowing them to qui...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Future consideration

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Month Picker while Importing reference data from Costing to Planning

We are using Costing integration due to some features we need missing in ADM. While importing reference data via Costing Integration, we would like the option of having month selection as an option to bring in Ref data from Costing into Planning
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
4 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / User Management & Login 1 Future consideration

Add Native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Support for instana-agent-k8sensor in Instana Helm Chart

The Instana Helm chart for instana-agent-k8sensor currently does not support native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) configuration. During a recent incident (Case TS020011638), a memory usage spike occurred post-AMI update, reaching 140% of the co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release