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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...
15 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
15 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Kanban View States: ability to customize grouping of states

It would be helpful to have the ability to customize how states are displayed as columns in the Kanban view. Right now, the system automatically groups them based on process workflows. We would like the flexibility to categorize states or map them...

Add Entity and Action UUIDs as an available column in the Search and Actions tables

The process for getting to this information easily for 50+ or even 1000+ items when utilizing the APIs to do metadata tagging is very cumbersome and requires multiple navigation clicks to move from one item to another. Making this an available cus...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Cloudability Dynamic Currency Service

Rather than use a manual upload of currencies for managing cldy cross platform currencies, it would make sense to use a dynamic service to make an API call and set this in the platform as opposed to a manual upload. API is also a must
9 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Custom Sharing Team Column Insufficient to See Full Team Name

The property pane for custom sharing has columns that are insufficient to see the full team name. As a result, it is difficult for users to select the right team in circumstances where the teams may share common prefixes. An example is below where...
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted