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Expand shared views to include all hierarchy levels

When currently sharing a view with an external user, that user will only be able to see the 1st level hierarchy of the report and are not able to drill down to see lower level items. This defeats the purpose of having a shared view if the external...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Not under consideration

filter Dependencies

On a "Capability Kanban" view we have several quick filters. the ones in question are: Portfolio, ART, PI. If a user selects a portfolio we want it to narrow down selection of ARTS to only ART in that portfolio. Then once an ART is selected we onl...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Empty Lanes should be hidden by default in lists and roadmaps

Every time someone goes into a view or a list, they need to click on the hide empty lanes. Can this be done by default or programmatically?
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Future consideration

UI Enhancements

Is there any plan to have better support for text wrapping? Is there any plan for better sizing of card elements in a dashboard view? Text placed on a card should auto size based on the number of characters etc.
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Needs more information

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Future consideration

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists