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Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Automatic disable scheduled runs of datalink during maintenance/release upgrade

If a datalink run is started during maintenance it can result in tables being in use in Apptio CT and failed runs in datalink
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Format improvement on PDF export of custom dashboard widget

Hi team, please consider including more information within the axes when a custom dashboard is exported. This is a key missing part in order to understand the graphs being exported, and right now we cannot see any values displayed, which makes it ...
10 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Subcategories in credits to classify them and better understand these concepts when creating reports

The client would like to be able to subclassify credits in the same way, or in a more granular way, as seen in the console of their cloud providers. In this case, GCP. Currently, in Cloudability, we only classify them as credits or not.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

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...
9 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Ability to get status of Azure vendor credentials via the API

Currently there is no way for us to be alerted if a specific set of the vendor credentials stops working. We can only get alerted by email if the verification fails. We have had scenarios where the verification status will show verified but the Az...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
9 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Request for additional features that can be provided via the Turbonomic API.

My customer has been using Cloudability Premium as basis of cloud resource and cost optimization managed service for their customers. Which contains Cloudability-SaaS and Turbonomic-SaaS function limited. Regarding on Turbonomic SaaS reporting fun...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

provide the `ps -auxww` information for each node

Now Instana lists up the top process for each Linux nodes. But sometimes we need the output of `ps auxww` information of the node. If collecting and recording the historical output of `ps auxww` in the backend is too much data volume, provide the ...
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

List up the belonging teams for each person in the User page

As an administrator, it's tedious work to open each user and check the role or team that person belongs. please list up the team and roles in the User page of the access control, instead of the only number of role which is displayed now.
6 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted