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The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Not under consideration

Synthetic Data not available for dashboards

We are not able to create dashboard with synthetics data, use cases: * line graph of historical results of all synthetics in a specific location or by region for x range of days* see all failed synthetics for a pop location or for a region in a gi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2

Ability to create groups of users to be used for Sharing

Right now you have to select individual people to share a dashboard, report, view with. And if a new person starts on that team, you have to know or remember exactly what things you need to share with that new person. It would be great if there wa...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Other 1

Option to group variables on Dashboards - Device Group + Object Group

There are cases where we would like a Device Group (Grouped on location basis), would like to be combined (a AND condition), with a object Group (having a subset of interested objects), which can help filter to see only those critical / interested...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
7 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Postilion with Instana

Using an Instana tool to monitor and do tracing on Postilion is useful for Capitec bank because it helps ensure that payment services—such as ATM, POS, and online transactions—run smoothly, quickly, and reliably. It gives real-time visibility into...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Apptio BI - Reorder tabs in a report

Hello everyone, I'm a bit surprised, but It is currently not possible to change the order of the tabs in an Apptio BI report. just opened a case and the support told me : After some research and experimenting, you cannot move the tabs after creati...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release