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Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
4 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Needs more information

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 0 Needs more information

Add the function of directly deleting the acconut

我們希望系統平台後續可以增加直接刪除該筆acconut的功能,並且refreshed之後還是保持著刪除狀態,而不是又再次加回來
7 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 3 Needs more information

Requesting functionality to prevent the complete loss of data for IEN Calc object values in the event of data timeliness issues with member objects.

IEN CALC objects having frequent gaps in CDN calc objects 1. Alerting not reliable.2. the ability to "true up" the calc object values if member object data is delayed.3..the ability to see aggregate traffic values for remaining objects within the ...
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Needs more information

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Needs more information

Enable CSV export of all rows of a report instead of just the data on the current page.

Currently a CSV export of a report widget will only export one page of data i.e. whatever data is shown on the current page. Please provide an option to download all rows of a report widget so that there is no need to page through a report and exp...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Needs more information