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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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
7 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-...
7 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...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Predictive analysis for migration window when converting back from ST1 to GP volumes in AWS.

When executing Turbo scaling actions to move volumes for savings after peak production hours (ex, after 5pm), the time it takes AWS to complete the migration has little impact. However, when the reverse is true for move actions of volumes for perf...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
13 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Persistent filter from Infrastructure to Analyze Infrastructure

Hi team, When we navigate on the Infrastructure section and use Filters, we expect that the Analyze Infrastructure Button that is present in the UI will work the same way as it works for Applications, where we can jump from every level (Applicatio...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Analyze Infrastructure - Name Display improvement

Hi team, when we have entities with long names, they are not fully displayed in the Analyze Infrastructure View (see screenshot attached). In this case, as we identify the entities by the Suffix, we don't see it at all in the result table. We are ...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Filters for Kubernetes Labels need to support all operators to help teams get insights on K8S clusters that have labels with similar or dissimilar values (Contains, Not Equals, Does Not Contain)

We have teams use Kubernetes labels that follow patterns to help them group similar clusters together (for example: MFG-A1, MFG-A2, ...). The current Filter for Labels on Container Cost Allocation only support the "equals" operator which causes a ...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted