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Ability to have Multi-Metric Smart Alerts for Applications. i.e Health Rules

Problem: Customers migrating from AppDynamics rely on health rules that combine multiple metrics (latency, error rate, throughput) within a single alert. Instana currently limits application smart alerts to a single metric. Proposed Capability: Al...
16 days ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Improve Transparency of Built‑in Event Evaluation Logic

Problem Users cannot clearly determine: Difference between “fraction of requests” vs “all requests” Whether multiple thresholds are evaluated with AND vs OR Full evaluation logic behind built‑in events Requested Enhancement Explicit evaluation log...
18 days ago in Instana / User Interface Not under consideration

Ability to Resize Columns on a Report

It would be helpful to be able to resize the columns on a Report, similar to what you can do in tables on Dashboards. This would give more control over the look of the Reports and possibly eliminate scrolling.
18 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards Not under consideration

Support for monitoring windows machine which is part of EKS cluster

As of now IBM Instana only supports monitoring of individual windows nodes. Currently there is no support for monitoring windows node/machine park of EKS cluster of AWS and On-Prem We need the list of instruction to monitor the windows machine tha...
21 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Select the authentication method at the Instana UI Login

Instana supports just one authentication method, this of course affects at Login and there is no other way the customer can select a different way to login, basically, if the current authentication method is broken for some reason, the customer ha...
29 days ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance Not under consideration

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units. Currently, when a user is logged in, they can only see one Unit at a time and have to continuosly switch back and forth between units. There are two reasons they want visibility across multipl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Backend Enablement Not under consideration

Want the ability for Teams and Roles to only be accessible within a single Unit

Today, when you define a Team or Role, they are available across all Units within a tenant. That makes it difficult to control what people have access to. For example, within Unit 1 a person might need administrative permissions like creating Smar...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

native integration with CyberArk

Instana currently lacks native integration with CyberArk, a leading enterprise privileged access management (PAM) and secret management platform. To support secure deployments and align with common enterprise security requirements, Instana needs f...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Integrations Not under consideration

Improve Power_Advisory_Workflow to tell users / stop when WatsonX is not available or set up.

At this time the Power_Advisory_Workflow requires WatsonX in order to be able to function. This is not stated in the documentation for setting up Power Workflows, nor does the workflow itself check for WatsonX. Instead, it will successfully run, p...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows Not under consideration

Want to separate out the Delete permissions from the Create and Update permissions for key RBAC roles

In the past, the customer has had many cases where people and teams have accidentally deleted resources such as Applications. They want a VERY small number of people that have the ability to delete objects. Today, when going into the RBAC settings...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

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