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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
18 days ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
9 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
8 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Feature to list and delete all the jobstreams with expired "valid to" dates.

This is a request for a feature to list and delete all the jobstreams that has expired "valid to" dates. I would like a feature in the DWC UI and also in the composer command line to create a list of jobstreams that has expired "valid to" dates. I...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted