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REST API for Custom Dashboard PDF Export

We would like to regularly archive the contents of custom dashboards. Although manual saving via the UI is possible, automation would be highly preferable. Providing a REST API for this functionality would enable automation and significantly impro...
5 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Datalink: Show destination time period and add filters in main report

Add a column to show destination time period: It would be helpful especially at year end if we could see the Destination time frame. Annually we have to check each datalink (or maintain a separate list) of the tables that load to the first period ...
12 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Allow BYOK for data collection

This would allow client to own, supply and manage their own encryption key, stored in their own Key Management Services. At the moment, IBM/Apptio manage this process protecting the client data. This change would provide additional control over da...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
13 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Content for cost model of modern containerized microservices and API-first architecture

The technologies deployed by companies today are no longer well represented and modeled through a lens of Physical to Virtual machines viewed on a monthly basis, with a VM hosting a single application. While this is the traditional Apptio Cost mod...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Eliminate the distinction between NULL and BLANK values

Today incoming blanks are of one type <BLANK> and all formula blanks are another <NULL>. The workaround, once identified, is to use an IF statement to set both values to blank. It would be great if a solution could be implemented to co...
5 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Bring Your Own S3 Bucket Support for IBM FinOps Agent (Containers Metric Deployment)

The IBM FinOps Agent currently requires outbound connectivity to transmit container metrics, which presents challenges for private or highly regulated Kubernetes environments. We propose introducing a “Bring Your Own S3 Bucket” (BYOS3) deployment ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Need class timings in profiling .Net applications

Hello Team, our customer uses .Net applications on kubernetes cluster and enabled profiling. They want to see what time profiled classes took to process requests. At the moment profiler diagram shows percentage, it doesn't help enough for customer...
6 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Need autotrace-webhook to support instrumentation nginx proxy with custom configs

Hello Team, our customer uses Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy calls to their application. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for most of them. We’ve adjusted autotace-...
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
6 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted