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We'd like to limit users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities withing their team's scope. Currently, there is no limitation at all

Custom events in Instana are governed by global permissions, meaning there is no granular RBAC control for this feature. As a result, users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities outside their team’s ...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

System Uptime value should be displayed in years/week/days/hours/minutes.

The default Network Device Summary report in Data Insight displays the System Uptime value in seconds as the default setting. The idea is for the System Uptime value to be displayed in years/week/days/hours/minutes instead, so that it is easier to...
16 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

sysLocation Field in Graph Tables

The customer would like to see / select sysLocation field inside the widgets - e.g. alerts details widget. Request: Add sys Location as an available field in report tables for more filter flexibility.
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Verizon Wireless needs an API to create and maintain maps in DI

Verizon Wireless has hundreds of status maps managed by scripts currently, it would be unthinkable to have them manually create and maintain those maps in DI maps
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Alert Severity - distribution by Policy ID.

The ability to show alerts and show a "distribution by device" is quite useful. However what is really required is to see a breakdown by Policy ID. This can then also be based on a Variable that allows Policy ID selection (i.e. dynamic filter as p...
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Variable option for Policy ID.

Whilst the widget provides options to filter on it requires permissions that not all users have as well as changing report behaviour if a user were to set. What is required is a variable that can be used to only show alerts matching one or more po...
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Improved Global Report Linking rules

We love the report linking capability, however it has some limitations with the inability to create more complex rules. As an example for "Device Type" it only has includes but no excludes. Our use case is to exclude reports for certain types as t...
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Save as PDF Dark Mode

Customer would like to email report PDFs with the Dark Mode color scheme
29 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Adaptive (Dynamic Baseline) Alerting in Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Currently, the Infrastructure Smart Alerts feature only supports static thresholding, even though the UI mentions “time-dependent” values. These thresholds do not adapt automatically to changes in system behavior over time. Instead, users must man...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0