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Add support for AWS RDS for postgresql or AWS aurora

10.2.3 introduced the support for postgresql - we would like to extend it to include AWS RDS for postgresql or AWS aurora to make the product more cloud friendly.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Adding the capacity to install new plugins/drivers for NAPALM

Currently the NAPALM module only supports what is the default for few vendors (Cisco mainly). But there are more networking brands and models requiring RIA integration as well. Example: Fortinet. It is not supported out of the box, but there are p...
3 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

loading the base-domain URL should forward the user to the tenant-unit.baseDomain URL for login

We learned from working on the Case "TS019337924 Different login experience", that the following behaviour is the status-quo for k3s selfhosted Instana (3.291.396-0): The URL https://basedomain.de (login fails in your env) is valid just after a fr...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Display Values Directly on Treemap Visualization in Apptio BI

In the Treemap visualization in Apptio BI, the values are only visible when we hover over individual sections. This is inconvenient, especially when we need to capture or share the chart. It would be more effective if the values were displayed dir...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered

Web/App End User Monitoring: Custom Metrics: Enable Alerts Based on Actual Metric Values, Instead of Only Count of Custom Metrics

In our Website Monitoring using the INEUM SDK, custom metrics are recorded and correctly displayed on default dashboards. However, when configuring smart alerts, we are restricted to using only the count of custom metric events. We cannot create a...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 4 Delivered

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Spending Anomalies: add "unusual percentage" column

As email alerts based on percentage thresholds can be created, we would like to see a "Unusual percentage" column close to the "Unusual Spend" column in the Spending Anomalies view. This column will help us to prioritize which anomalies we will ma...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Delivered