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Need to monitor compiled python applications with any name of the application

Dear Colleagues, Our customer is using third party python application that they need to trace and monitor, the third-party vendor has issued the application image instrumented with Instana, but the application is compiled for performance reasons a...
12 months ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Support zLinux for Instana distributed OpenTelemetry collector

We want to collect logs with OpenTelemetry collector. Because of the support perspective, we want to use Instana Distribution of Opentelemetry Collector (IDOT) . But our system is running on zLinux (SUSE) and IDOC does not cover zLinux. Could you ...
4 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Under review

Uninstallation instructions in the main documentation.

At present, the instructions provided at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x do not provide uninstallation instructions. While maybe not the most critical of things, it might help to include some uninstallation steps to remove an ...
8 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure / User Interface 11

Ability to Drill Down within a dashboard widget

The ability to drill down into data on a widget would be incredibly helpful without understanding the data. For example, one particular District is high, ability to drill down to the accounts within that District to help isolate the cause.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Ability to adjust the fiscal year & quarters when the business's fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year

The company I'm with Kroger, but I've worked for other companies who's fiscal year didn't follow the calendar year. Because of that Apptio BI and even Cloudability Reports should have the ability to adjust those dates to what suits the company. It...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Policy Historical Helper: In the policy editor, add a feature that will help determine if the policy has the correct settings by using historical data.

It would help admins determine if the new policy or policy changes will catch the expected events. Otherwise, users would have to wait for future events to see if the policy had the desired results. In a separate tab in the Policy Editor, display ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration