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Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add business mapping on Recommendation API endpoint

When retrieving API endpoints for rightsizing recommendations we can not seem to retrieve the associated business mappings for the resources we are retrieving. We would like to be able to do that.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

keep infrastructure metric history on activation of beeInstana

Please refere to TS015999019 Missing his torical Data after migration to beeinstana
over 1 year ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 2 Future consideration

Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improve ApptioBI Alerting(Insights) to not require a manual reset

Provide the ability to automatically reset a trigger when trigger, without having to delete are re-create trigger. This will save time. Also provide the ability to generate multiple triggers/alerts for each Dashboard.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Unify resource ID display Azure

In the right sizing recommendations I the ResourceID some sometimes not displayed for Azure resources. Which makes it a bit cumbersome to find these resources if for instance you want to dig up details in for instance Apptio BI. In addition what i...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

set default value for timeline

Next to setting the default cost metrics, we would like to be able to set default value for the timeline for rightsizing.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration