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Provide all Top-List options in Table "[Application(traces&calls), business metrics, business process...]" for custom dashboards

Hi Team, In the custom dashboard, 1. Add Widget - Currently in the "Table" type of customer dashboard, the datastore dropdown has only 3 values as below. "Events" "Infrastructure & Platforms" "Kubernetes Events" 2. We want to have all dropdown...
5 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Request for Enhancement: Prevent Multiple Master Roles in IWS

In IWS automatic failover configurations, after a failure and subsequent recovery, there is a possibility that multiple MDM/BKM instances with master roles may run simultaneously (split brain). In evaluation environment, this situation caused a ba...
6 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Functionality to export,edit,import IWS Database Objects in Excel (or some other form of spreadsheets)

This is an idea to add a functionality to export/import IWS Database Objects to/from IWS DB. Many IWS customers are requesting a functionality to export IWS Database Objects to a spreadsheet, edit them, then bulk import the objects back to IWS DB....
26 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
27 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
27 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to view which entities/processes/application/containers are consuming from the Pod's Mem/CPU Usage

Hi Team, Application is crashing due to increased memory. Want to view in Instana UI, where actual application memory and CPU is getting used. Example: Allocated memory for application is 6Gi, and 12 CPU. These usages want to see in instana UI Tha...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Time-rage per widget

All widgets in Instana's custom dashboard follow the same time-rage (from the top right corner of the UI). This idea is for each widget to be able to override this time range.
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Native cost allocation and chargeback by OpenShift namespace annotations and per‑agent ingest keys

SummaryWe need Instana to natively attribute and report usage to internal cost centers so we can fairly recharge costs. Our workloads run on shared OpenShift clusters; every namespace has annotations for cost center and application ID. A small num...
5 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Possibility to switch plans in Orchestration Monitor (DWC)

Dynamic Workload Console provides a number of ways to search for recent plans, such as 'Show Plan View' or 'Monitor Workload'. The disadvantage of these methods is the lack of usability: Queries must be reformulated each time or can only be saved ...
12 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

To have clear auditing & logging for RestAPI related actions

This idea is related to have a clearing auditing and logging for any action taken using restapi either through swagger or by calling the restapi through a script. Right now there is no distinction from where the action is being performed. This ide...
18 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted