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Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
12 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

[Rightsizing service] Align the Cloudability API and the Cloudability IU by adding the UI the option to filter by 'last seen' date per vendor page.

The filter by 'last seens' date help to filter non-exsit resources. That help to get better vision on actionable recommendations.The CSV and the API has this data already - and we want to align the UI for it.We plan to create a promotion email for...
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

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....
about 1 hour 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)
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

REST API for Custom Dashboard PDF Export

We would like to regularly archive the contents of custom dashboards. Although manual saving via the UI is possible, automation would be highly preferable. Providing a REST API for this functionality would enable automation and significantly impro...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Common 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...
about 20 hours ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Bring Your Own S3 Bucket Support for IBM FinOps Agent (Containers Metric Deployment)

The IBM FinOps Agent currently requires outbound connectivity to transmit container metrics, which presents challenges for private or highly regulated Kubernetes environments. We propose introducing a “Bring Your Own S3 Bucket” (BYOS3) deployment ...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Have ability to add generic email to subscriptions (same applies to Anomaly emails and ApptioBI reports)

Currently, as a user I can only subscribe myself to a report, usign the email that my account is associated with.I want to be able to subscribe a generic mail list (e.g. cloud-services@synamedia.com) to a report. This functionality ensure that the...
about 21 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

When duplicating an ApptioBI report, have the option to "bake in" any selected global report filters into all of the widgets as pre-visualisation filters, removing set filters in process.

There are several occasions when I take a generic report and wish to save it for others to use, but want to give them a report with fixed filters and less options. The idea is I have a generic report, I preselect the filters that configure what I ...
about 22 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Page level filters

In the case of extensive reporting we might have different data on each page of the report. Thus, we need to have a page level filter, similar to dashboard level that only applies to current page and when using it does not affect other pages in th...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration