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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 ...
1 day ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

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...
1 day ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Add Oracle Database Driver Support (oracledb / ocdb) in Instana Synthetic Tests

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests only support drivers such as mssql and mongodb, which limits the ability to directly test environments running on Oracle Database. Adding support for the official oracledb (and optionally ocdb) Node.js drivers wo...
1 day ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Copy and Paste multiple entries into Filters

I want to be able to copy and paste data into all Inputs across Cloudability, Turbonomic, and Apptio so that I can easily create reports for large sets of specific data. For example, I want to be able to copy and paste 50 AWS Account IDs into a Fi...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for a Scheduled Build Execution in Apptio Studio (Dev Environment)

Introduce a Build Scheduler in Apptio Studio’s Dev environment that allows users to set and manage build schedules.
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

Log who triggered an integration sync

In Settings > Integrations > CSV export / import > "View messages log", it is possible to review logs for data imports and exports. One of the events that are logged is "Export run was triggered by USER". It would be a good improvement to...
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Submitted

Add Splunk APM as a native APM Target

Requesting target support for Splunk APM (SignalFX) for application infrastructure performance monitoring on AWS. During my customer's Turbo rollout, they came to realize that actions are being generated without APM insight that could be critical ...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted