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Instana to instrument IBM Financial Transaction Manager and ODM for Payments

Bank client wants to use Instana to monitor traces, metrics and logs from IBM Financial Transaction Manager. Asking for Instana to support FTM observability. Goal is end-to-end observability in Financial Transaction Manager to reduce MTTR for FTM....
17 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Add Otel tags in log volume Analysis

Add Open Telemetry tags filter group in log volume to facilite analysis volumetry sent directly to Instana Backend (without passing through Instana Agent)
17 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Apply a filter on "Estimate" widget

As a Finops I would like to be able to apply a filter to my widget, to exclude taxes for example. It would be relevant because a lot of companies doesn't have to pay taxes and doesn't want to track them.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Eliminate the distinction between NULL and BLANK values

Today incoming blanks are of one type <BLANK> and all formula blanks are another <NULL>. The workaround, once identified, is to use an IF statement to set both values to blank. It would be great if a solution could be implemented to co...
18 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Need class timings in profiling .Net applications

Hello Team, our customer uses .Net applications on kubernetes cluster and enabled profiling. They want to see what time profiled classes took to process requests. At the moment profiler diagram shows percentage, it doesn't help enough for customer...
18 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Need autotrace-webhook to support instrumentation nginx proxy with custom configs

Hello Team, our customer uses Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy calls to their application. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for most of them. We’ve adjusted autotace-...
18 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
18 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Associate synthetic tests to websites and mobile apps using the Terraform provider

Synthetic tests can be associated with applications, websites and mobile apps using the UI, but the terraform provider only supports the association with applications. We would like a way to get the association done for synthetic tests as well wit...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Assigning user with multiple roles or multiple external user groups

Enterprises are getting complex and role of a FinOps, DevOps or SRE is getting more fragmented. With this direction in the organization, a FinOps team member may want to have a readonly/observer privilege on all the resources, but more actionable ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted