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Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Unable to upload mdb file type using upload link

When I try to upload a mdb file in the Test Case run, it gives an error of 'Invalid file extension,' but copy-pasting is working.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Needs more information

Ability to Export / Print / Save to PDF a dashboard

We'd like the ability export dashboards into excel or pdf's files to then share with stakeholders who do not need to login to TP. This would help other platforms where visibility into a project would be easier with an attachment.
over 10 years ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Future consideration

Custom quick filters for visual reports also to apply to PNG export

The export could be used e.g., in presentations while now when all data for all items is shown the visual is often too loaded.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Future consideration

User cards should be exportable 'as is' so we can control what is seen when another user downloads. We can control what is see via lists or on the User screen, but not the export.

Currently we have fields that we are only allowing Admins to see in views and screens, but a user can still see those fields if they export one of the views that have 'User' as a card. This is information that we would like to keep hidden on expor...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Planned for future release

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration