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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.
18 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI We have a customer that use OCI and today and are migrating BPM platform from aix to OCI infrastructure.They use db2 and tsamp today.But we have problems to configure tsamp.
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Submitted

Ability to share a report with a 'Microsoft Entra ID' group.

It will be usefull if we are able to share a report to a group of people based on 'Microsoft Entra ID' group. As a large company, we have systems that group people into groups and keep those groups up to date. Which is not the case at individuals ...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 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.
20 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Ability to filter container labels with not equals, contains, does not contain

Since containers are not available in reports, customers want to be able filter their container data based on mulitple criteria similar to what they could do in reporting (contains, does not equal, does not contain).
20 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Cost Management Support for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Context: Cloudability currently provides dedicated cost visibility and allocation capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). This includes workload-level attribution across clusters, namespaces, deployments, and labels, enabling cus...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
12 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Improve quality and detail within error messages

to help understand what the problem is and to identify potential workaround and solutions
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted