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Allow for Users to Remove Themselves as View Owners if there is another owner.

Currently, users who have been added as owners to views for trouble shooting purposes (like portfolio admins or other support staff) are unable to remove themselves from the same view. As a view owner, I need to be able to remove myself from any v...
about 9 hours ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Create a new cost transparency integration for sending the event log/change history from ITP to CT

Our user activity in IT Planning is currently hard to track and the export is hard to understand without additional formatting. With an integration into Cost Transparency, it would be easier to reformat the event log/change history data in CT in c...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
16 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Overcome limitation on monitoring Kafka endpoints

Due to the fact that JVM stack traces are increasing the size of the data sent to back end, and raising our budget, we are configuring some Kafka topics to not being monitored. The problem is that there is a limitation on the number of topics to b...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
15 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Allow the date range columns to be translated in custom reports.

OOTB report is translated the date range columns , but Custom report is not transrated the date range columns . I would like to be able to translate the date range columns of custom reports. the date range columns:you can add to a table: Months Ye...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
16 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Adding natural logarithm function to TBM studio

Adding a natural logarithm (ln) function to TBM Studio would enable users to perform Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) analysis for cost allocation decomposition. LMDI is a widely-used method in decomposition but requires natural log calculati...
about 4 hours ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted