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azure pass monitor add metric fqdn of service sql database and postgres

Users connect to Azure databases through fqdn, but Instana lacks this metric, which makes it difficult to accurately associate with specific databases. Therefore, this metric needs to be added.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

OS filters in mobile app in dashboard

- For Android, we have the list of device type. So it's impossible to filter by the version of Android (Android 14, Android 15, ...). - For iOS, we have only iOS or iPadOS. So it's impossible to filter by the version (iOS 15, 16, 17, ...).
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Enhancement Request: Utility for Syntax Validation of Probe Properties and nco_pad.conf Files Without Restart

Description: We would like to request an enhancement in the Netcool/OMNIbus suite to include a utility or feature that can validate the syntax of the following configuration files without requiring a component restart: Probe properties files (*.pr...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Create New Role for Portfolio Admins

We would like to have a new role established that is able to maintain their portfolio(s) just like an admin role, but limited to their assigned portfolio. This role should help with decentralized administration of portfolio(s). This new role is on...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Under review

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 ...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review