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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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Adding natural logarithm function to TBM studio

Adding a natural logarithm (ln) function to TBM Studio would enable users to perform Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) analysis for cost allocation decomposition. LMDI is a widely-used method in decomposition but requires natural log calculati...
18 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Agent restriction to SaaS Backend

In an Instana SaaS environment where application server owners can onboard agents to the backend: Mechanisms to restrict what agents are allowed to report to the SaaS backend. A process to detect and remove any rogue agents that have been onbo...
18 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Create a new cost transparency integration for sending the event log/change history from ITP to CT

Our user activity in IT Planning is currently hard to track and the export is hard to understand without additional formatting. With an integration into Cost Transparency, it would be easier to reformat the event log/change history data in CT in c...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
3 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted

Feature Enhancement Request: Turbonomic vCore Optimization Visibility

Proposed Enhancement Enhance the Turbonomic UI and reporting tools to include: vCore Delta Metrics Show the number of vCores added or removed per optimization action. Include timestamps and affected VM identifiers. Historical Tracking Maintain a l...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted