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Make 'current_view' dropdown "stick" to the top of the current page

Hello, I want to submit a solution for making the 'current_view' dropdown stick on the top of the current page. I already made a proposal for fixing this which would make minor changes to the frontend. It will only move elements and make them stic...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Persona-based Landing Page in Cost Transparency

I would like to customize the landing page for the various personas in our organization. For us, it would be https://amadeus.apptio.comA Finance person would land on a specific report, a Non IT Product Owner to a different one, etc.Right now we ha...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on them

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on EC2 and EKS. Support is need for applications written using GoLang, Nodejs, .net core, java. We also need support for opentel.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Functionality already exists

Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Layout creation must included all mandatory fields

When mandatory field is hidden, users don’t know it must be completed and as a result the row does not get saved. Request is that layouts should only be able to be created that include all mandatory fields. Main issue here is line is not getting s...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Get LDAP attributes from podified Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management (ManageIQ) documentation https://www.manageiq.org/docs/reference/latest/methods_available_for_automation/index.html#user-user includes methods to get users LDAP attributes values. However, methods do not work when using p...
over 1 year ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review