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Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Delivered

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

ApptioBI report filter add scroll bar

As a builder of ApptioBI reports, I find that there are often many filters needed. Sometimes too many for the screen to show all at once. It is not obvious to most of my users that some of these are therefore hidden, nor how to reach those additio...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Delivered

Enable hyperlinks in text boxes in Apptio BI reports

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add those URLs as plain text. The user needs to higlight, copy and paste into the browse...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 4 Delivered

Display Values Directly on Treemap Visualization in Apptio BI

In the Treemap visualization in Apptio BI, the values are only visible when we hover over individual sections. This is inconvenient, especially when we need to capture or share the chart. It would be more effective if the values were displayed dir...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 4 Delivered

Change chart values text to something that is easily readable

Currently the chart values feature is ugly at best and most of the time illegible. Ideally the text size colour etc would be selectable, but if that isn't possible please can they remove the white background and be larger
12 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Delivered

Export data to CSV

Our users need to extract data from instana to generate report for SLA to our clients. So we 'd like to have a button "export Data" from the analytic view to get data. Regards
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered