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Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
4 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
5 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Ability to limit the relations tab for search & create

The relations tab feels confusing for some users. they press + to create a relation instead of searching the environment & some customers don't want to use this functionality in here but only from an integration standpoint. the request is as f...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
20 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted

Container Platform Clusters - "Executed Actions - Succeded and Failed" widget with empty data

For Turbonomic, In the search -> Container Platform Clusters option, the "Executed Actions - Succeeded or Failed" widget doesn't display any data for a specific cluster. The customer opened a support case ticket (TS020249556) and the response f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration