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Export directly in xls or xlsx format

It would be useful to have the possibility to directly export into a more common Excel format next to the csv format.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Quick add, drag&drop, prioritization, customization of columns and filtering for fourth level (sub-level) in lists

Currently quick add and drag&drop are only available for entities selected in view setup (lets call this first "three levels", when both axes are selected). So called "fourth level" (which user cannot select, as it is hardcoded in the system) ...
over 11 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Custom Hierarchy on List Views

When a custom hierarchy is in place (ex: skipping the Epic layer and connect Portfolio Epics straight to Features) the " Show 4th hierarchy level" does not show the custom hierarchy but the default one, making it useless. Having the opportunity to...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 4 Planned for future release

Monitoring custom log files in AIX

We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release

Visual encoding for hierarchy in the list view

Add a possibility to apply a visual encoding rules also to 1st and 2nd hierarchy levek in list view, not only main cards
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 2 Planned for future release

Visual Encoding: apply color to 1st, 2nd and 4th levels / rows / lanes of hierarchy in Lists

As for now only cards are colored. It would be useful to color 1st and 2nd level hierarchy as well.
over 10 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Missing endpoints for logs on Instana API Service Catalogue

we have internal client's looking for logs search by API endpoints and its a missing content into Intana service catalogue. Instana API docs
7 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Provide level WARN for Docker version of Instana agent

In https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=requirements-installing-host-agent-docker#installation INSTANA_LOG_LEVEL does not provide the level WARN. I guess this is an issue and should be added. Esp. for consistency.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release