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Allow for Users to Remove Themselves as View Owners if there is another owner.

Currently, users who have been added as owners to views for trouble shooting purposes (like portfolio admins or other support staff) are unable to remove themselves from the same view. As a view owner, I need to be able to remove myself from any v...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
12 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Add ability to send a link to a folder – the recipient would see the folder highlighted in their UI

Ability to send a link to a folder should be added and if possible, the recipient should see the folder highlighted in their User Interface.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Future consideration

Gantt View or Roadmap View that is Drillable

We are utilizing Power BI to build Gantt charts based off of epic, feature, and story dates to meet end user needs. Today in Targetprocess, roadmap views limit you to one entity type and is not drillable. If roadmaps were drillable, this would hel...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Future consideration

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Widget Creation screen filters need to be visible or editable to end users post creation of said widget

When adding a widget to a dashboard, users have the ability to select projects and teams. If they select anything besides "any portfolio" or "any team", this filter sticks to this widget forever and cannot be viewed or edited. This causes problems...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade or Agent disconnection

Hello Team, I am recreating this request as we had discussion with backend team ( Jeison) to look into this idea. we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

filter Dependencies

On a "Capability Kanban" view we have several quick filters. the ones in question are: Portfolio, ART, PI. If a user selects a portfolio we want it to narrow down selection of ARTS to only ART in that portfolio. Then once an ART is selected we onl...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration