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Amount of decimals in the system

Customers coming from different systems are user to different amount of decimal numbers. also in between calculations are causing rounding errors in the total amounts of budgets, forecasted costs,... the request is to set a default amount of decim...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 0

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Search is not working correctly in eventviewer list with relationship view enabled

There are often scenarios where main events are linked to child events. These relationships can be effectively visualized using the Relationship View in the EventViewer. However, the search functionality does not work correctly when using this Rel...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
3 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to hide dashboards from my own list

On the list of all dashboards for an org, I would like the ability to hide dashboards that I do not need. When a user shares a dashboard with an entire org, everyone gets it whether they want it or not and this can create a long list of dashboards.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
23 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Include more Cloud Services for Sustainability Reporting

Hi, currently, IBM Turbonomic provides sustainability reporting based on virtual machines (VMs). However, since the customer utilizes a wide range of cloud services across different cloud platform, it would be beneficial to extend the Sustainabili...
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Under review

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
23 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration