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Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
4 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
11 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted