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Finalizing the Plan Auto Approves the cost Object which is not correct behaviour

Case # 00341773 was closed stating that this is expected behavior and they asked us to raise an Idea.  The Problem is that client uses a new plan each month and the old one needs to be read only for the users. In order to make it re...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
10 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Be able to set priority in the Service Now integration (alert channel)

We currently set priority, it seems, in an arbitrary manner. However, its seems that the priority in SNOW is actually based on two other fields: business impact and urgency. This request is to be able to set an impact and urgency field on SNOW ale...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Delivered

Be able to set various fields in the Service Now integration

Currently, we can open a SNOW ticket via our SNOW alert channel. But there is no way to set certain fields (like Category and Assginment Group). This request is to be able to set these certain fields.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Delivered

Ensure when an incident/issue no longer exists, we send a 'close' to Service Now

Right now our SNOW integration only opens tickets in SNOW. But when an incident/issue no longer exists, we should also send the corresponding 'close' to Service Now.
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

Support for NGINX 1.25 Alpine tracing on K8s/OCP

Right now support is available up to 1.24 alpine. We would need support for 1.25 alpine to trace calls going through the NGINX running on K8s/OCP
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Delivered

Need secure communications from the Instana Agent/Sensor to the IBM i server

Currently, all communications from the Instana Agent/sensor to the IBM i system are insecure. The customer needs to have SSL communications to ensure that traffic is secure.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered

Compatibility for Java Profiling/Profiling on IBM Power (specifically on Linux)

This would be useful as it gives Power users (Dillards specifically which is a deal size of 108,480) access to java profiling for specific insights that they are looking for into the code. This is a dealbreaker request for them. Thank you for cons...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power 2 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Lack of Request & Response Samples in API Document

We need "Request Samples" and "Response Samples" for all methods in the Instana API documentation on https://instana.github.io/openapi/ For example, the sample request body for POST and PUT methods, the responses returned by the methods etc. Then ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered