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Improve the executed actions widget

The user experience of executed actions widget currently is poor. It should be completely revamped. Some ideas are: 1) Include the policy name which caused the action to be executed automatically. Right now it just says system. 2) When an action f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add an API endpoint that returns CLOUDABILITY_API_KEY for a given cluster ID

We use Cloudability to monitor our kubernetes clusters, however the deployment manifests returned by calling this API endpoint - https://api.cloudability.com/v3/containers/provisioning/ {cluster_id} /config (where {cluster_id} is the ID of a kuber...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Issues with ITP rows with prior months data

In ITP today, users can delete a row that has data in prior months and when a row is duplicated, prior months populate as well as future months
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

ITP Manual publishes result in 1 build after the final publish

Every night at 5 pm, we publish 5 tables from ITP to Cost Transparency. Each publish creates a separate calc in TBM Studio. In order to save time, we have to cancel the running calc so all builds roll up. This is a manual process.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Allow scheduled BI dashboard reports to be delivered in Excel (XLSX) or CSV format, in addition to PDF.

Currently, Cloudability only supports scheduled BI dashboard report delivery via email in PDF format. For reporting flexibility, we would like the ability to receive scheduled dashboard exports in CSV or Excel format. This would enable better data...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Apptio BI - Limit number of "legend items" on charts to aid visibility

Apptio BI stacked bar charts require the ability to limit the number of items to include in the widget (example, "limit results to: "). For our cloud reporting, we want to use a widget to showcase a stacked chart of Cloud services used. For our en...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Under review

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review