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Hi - Understanding that these fields were just recently added to the instance of IT Planning, and is a very welcome update. We would like these fields added to the processing, when publishing plans from IT Planning to CT. These fields will help identify updates made to our metadata. We were expecting these fields to be included in the push, as a majority of the other fields are included.

It would be beneficial as we can use these fields for additional processing in our reporting environment in cost transparency. In addition, I was basically expecting these fields to already have been included in the push, as all of the other field...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Planned for future release

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Warning Message for +5m rows in cldy_monthly_aws and cldy_monthly_azure

Hi, It would be great to include a warning message for big cloud bill loads into A1, to advise things to check to slim down this dataset. So for example: Resource Level information should not be includedUsage Date should not be includedItem Descri...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Other / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Planned for future release

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Mange totals at the bottom of a column

Some columns contain an average or a multiplier (eg, number of users) that doesn't make sense to make a total from. I wish we could right click in TBM Studio and choose "Total, Average, None".  Also happens on the Totals column, all Metrics a...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

Ability to filter on memo data types in ITP

Add the ability to filter on "memo" data types
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

azure pass monitor add metric fqdn of service sql database and postgres

Users connect to Azure databases through fqdn, but Instana lacks this metric, which makes it difficult to accurately associate with specific databases. Therefore, this metric needs to be added.
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release