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Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
5 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Expand the ability to use Map Columns

The Map Columns transform step can only be used with what are called Master Datasets which only exist in components. This should be changed so that the Map Columns step can be used with any data transform. One of the main reasons for this is that ...
3 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Ability to rename metrics in TBM Studio

Currently without any way to rename a metric, if users dislike the initial name, a new metric needs to be created and all allocations and model objects added to that metric. Additionally all report components need to be updated to use the new metr...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
18 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ability to set up/receive Budget Alerts

The ability to set up and receive budget alert emails is not enabled in the Gov Cldy version. It would be beneficial to be able to set up alerts to compare actual spending to a defined budget/forecast. Would it be possible to make the budget alert...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Q Replication Monitoring Support in Instana

Recently, I have been researching and testing Q Replication (QREP). My understanding is that Instana currently does not provide direct support for QREP. However, I believe it would be very helpful if information about the internal state of Q Captu...
2 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Rightsizing for Redshift Serverless

Hi, Currently, it seems Redshift rightsizing recommendation doesn't applicable on Redshift Serverless instances, as I don't see any listed within in our env. Is there any plan to enhance/expand the rightsizing recommendation to Redshift Serverless?
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Default AIOPS Alert contextual menu

We woule like to be able to disable, suppress, change, or restrict the default AIOPS alert contextual menu. We need to remove the ability for operators to perform many default actions. The only possibility we have found is to restrict them for all...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add a “Contains” operator for the Namespace dimension in Container Reporting to enable flexible partial matching similar to the Cluster dimension.

Currently, within Container Reporting, when filtering by the Namespace dimension, only the “Equals To” operator is available. Unlike the Cluster dimension, which supports the “Contains” operator, this limitation restricts flexibility in filtering ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted