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Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Ability to restrict the Rest API to specific user groups and rate-limiting

Currently, the Rest API can be used by anyone with access to the engine. We would like the ability to restrict that access to a specific user group or even source IP address or subnet. In addition, being able to rate limit Rest API calls would als...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Needs more information

ADM should recognize Daylight Savings

Currently in ADM, when we select a time period we have to select EDT (for eastern time zone). Now that we are in EST, when we set up a schedule or reference an older schedule we have to offset the time by an hour to represent the EST time as it is...
8 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Perform the incorrect ifIndex treatment on Extreme equipment.

It has been verified that Extreme devices return ifIndex IF-MIB values ​​that differ from the standard (starting from value 1), while for the LLDP protocol the ifIndex values ​​are correct (starting from value 1). This causes problems in topology ...
8 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Saved Views on Tabbed Reports

Recently saved views was introduced, but often breaks/does not save/displays errors on complex tabbed reports. Hard to explain to users which reports it might work on vs broken.
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Automating Cloudability report exports

I have a large number of Cloudability reports that I need to export on a monthly basis. Rather than running these reports manually specifying updated dates, I would like to schedule the run of the reports and specify which dates I want to use as p...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

need to add an option to convert and show currency in Million to Crores

The customer currently contributes an ACV of USD 192K and is one of the very few India-based customers using Apptio. Their financial reporting is managed in Crores rather than Millions, which makes it difficult for them to track KPIs effectively w...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists