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Add %ifInErrors, %ifOutErrors, %ifInDiscards, %ifOutDiscards as standard indicators for interfaces

These are industry standard metrics and should have been added years ago. All customers benefit since individual packet error/discard counts don't provide much context into the seriousness of the issue (e.g. 5 errors out of how many packets?) vs i...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Hide system-generated message in the validation rule UI

Amex raised this idea of improving the validation rule UI to have an option to hide the system-generated message that appears below the business-oriented error message, which currently shows the native entity name and ID? While the rule ID is grea...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 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

Convert Epic to an Idea

We are currently unable to convert an Epic to an Idea within Target Process, despite expecting this functionality to be available. The conversion option is either missing or disabled, which is impacting our workflow and backlog management. 1. Navi...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Functionality already exists

When "Allow Flow View Selection" option is selected for a flow widget, also add the "graph remaining traffic" slider button to the widget.

This would benefit consumers of read only reports who may need to be able to toggle the remaining traffic in a flow widget on or off, but can't edit the widget directly to do so.
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Notify admins on system failures (i.e. AR, Metrics, etc...)

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently provide any form of notification or alerting mechanism for system-level errors or failures. This includes—but is not limited to—issues with: Automation rule execution Synchronization failures Lo...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Add filtering capabilities to entities history

Current Limitation: The history tab on TargetProcess entities can become quite extensive, especially for items with frequent updates. Currently, users must manually expand each individual update to determine which fields were changed. There is no ...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0

Incorporate metadata into alerting

Operationally and for Management reports. Standardizing metadata fields across the diverse number of environments. Real-time synchronization of metadata. Alert policies that dynamically adapt to metadata changes.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to use custom LDAP libraries or modify LDAP search parameters

When it comes to security, a robust authentication setup is key. In this regard, the way is implemented in production environments may lead to use non-standard settings or mixing different approaches to suit operation's needs. The request is to ei...
4 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 4 Future consideration