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Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

API to programmatically set default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We currently have to go to the Users and Groups page to reset default dashboard and view for users manually. There should be an API to be set this programatically based on the user roles.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Generate a file output without a header row on the csv file

This would be useful for our automation of our chargeback process. This automation runs from Cloudability through SFTP to our Nationwide Finance system and the system can not accept a file with a header row.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

and or statements in filter

When creating filters in Apptio BI you are unable to create a combination of and en or statements. Hence you need to create several statements to achieve this. As an example i have this statement below. It would me much more efficient if we can ne...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Hide recommendations filter for UI

Currently we can filter the application to show rightsizing recommendations for compute over a certain amount. We'd like to see more elaborate filter options that apply to all right sizing categories like: 1) An amount threshold that applies to al...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Crash analytics can be implemented using Flutter

I run a PoC in a client's environment using Instana SaaS tenant. Out of several scenarios there is this crash analytics. As the applications built using Flutter framework for dart programming language, their developer expects that Instana crash an...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration