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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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

2 Step Authentication

I was unable to connect to Tableau since it uses 2-step authentication (POST, then a GET request). It would be useful if Apptio added this feature so I could connect in-house.
13 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted