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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...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
18 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

DWC to support proper high-availability

We have a load balancer in front of multiple DWC instances. The problem is that session affinity is required because of how the DWC stores user sessions. So, when one of the instances needs to be restarted, all logged in users to that instance are...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Currency doesn't show in charts

Issue is with metric: Even if you tag the currency, it won't show in the charts and if currency is Euros, it also won't show the Euro sign.
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio tables Show Values not working when RLS Applied

Show values does not work in the RLS Step and users see different row count.
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enable Image Attachment in Comments on Rightsizing ROI Screen

Customer wants the ability to attach images (e.g., screenshots) in the comment section of the Rightsizing ROI screen. Background: When sharing the status or context of a detected resource, it would be helpful to include screenshots for clarity. Th...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Month Picker while Importing reference data from Costing to Planning

We are using Costing integration due to some features we need missing in ADM. While importing reference data via Costing Integration, we would like the option of having month selection as an option to bring in Ref data from Costing into Planning
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Add Native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Support for instana-agent-k8sensor in Instana Helm Chart

The Instana Helm chart for instana-agent-k8sensor currently does not support native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) configuration. During a recent incident (Case TS020011638), a memory usage spike occurred post-AMI update, reaching 140% of the co...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Would like logging in audit log for when an agent is changed from info to debug

Would like for when someone changes the agent log level from info to debug to be logged in the audit trail
23 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted