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Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 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...
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need a way to see details of executed actions

We have fully automated load-balancing of VMWare ESX cluster ...ie. Turbonomic is instructing VMWare DRS to move VM around when needed. But there doesn't seems to be a way for us to look at details for executed Move actions. ie. what is the utiliz...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Need a way to export/download the PLAN report in PDF

We are using the PLAN every month and have to send the report to the customer, but currently there is no way to export/download the PLAN report. We end-up using the browser print function to save it to PDF but the formatting is all messy doing it ...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

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...
22 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
22 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Enable anomaly detection in Cloudability to support user-level alert subscriptions and action tracking, so anomalies can be assigned, acknowledged, and resolved within the platform.

Currently, anomaly detection in Cloudability only provides a list of anomalies across all accounts, with optional alerts that must be configured by administrators. This creates gaps in ownership and accountability because Individual users or accou...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review