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Allow Custom Events and Alerts to Evaluate Conditions Across Multiple Entity Types

Problem Statement Instana Custom Events currently require users to select a single entity type (host, service, application, etc.) when defining event conditions. Once the entity type is selected, all event conditions and metrics are restricted to ...
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Introduce Team-Level Administrator Role for Delegated Team Management

Problem Statement Instana currently provides team management capabilities only through administrative permissions that apply across all teams. Organizations with many application teams often want to delegate ownership and maintenance of specific t...
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Allow Saving Filters and Analytics When Using Scoped or Contextual Views

Problem Statement Users are currently unable to save certain filters and analytics configurations when working within scoped or contextual views. During investigation, support indicated that the current behavior is not supported and recommended su...
7 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Support Additive Role Permissions for Users Assigned Multiple Roles

Problem Statement Instana currently evaluates multiple assigned roles using a restrictive (least-permissive) access model. When a user is assigned multiple roles, permissions do not combine into a cumulative set of privileges. Instead, restrictive...
7 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Improve maintenance windows to see if more than one window is active for a specific resource.

Weeknight maintenance window Sunday-Friday 20.00-05:00 Weekend maintenance window Saturday & Sunday whole days Both these maintenance windows have the same scope. The problem occurs when one maintenance window expires and we get incidents crea...
15 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Display all WebSphere Datasource Names and allow for multiple metrics for Websphere Servers

Widget with multiple metrics for WebSphere requires a “Datasource Name” dimension. What we want to achieve is the following view: Display all defined WebSphere Datasource Names and for all available WebSphere Server (or based on a filter) for mult...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / WAS Future consideration

Enable Partial Match Filtering for EUM User ID in Analytics

Problem Statement When filtering EUM Analytics data in the Website/Page Loads view, the User > ID field only supports exact-match operators (equals, does not equal, is present, is not present). This limitation prevents us from performing partia...
21 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted