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Left side folder management : automated tasks

Would it be possible to create an automation rule or some other programmatic way to take views and reports on the left hand side that are not in a folder and put them in a folder?
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Not under consideration

Email subscriptions by end user

Give users the ability to personally select / subscribe / unsubscribe when they will receive email notifications instead of push settings
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Centralized management for all subscription, for both Total Cost and Cloudability reports.   It is very challenging today

Centralized management for all subscription, for both Total Cost and Cloudability reports. It is very challenging today
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Not under consideration

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize messages displayed in the DWC

We would like the ability to customize the text of messages used in the DWC. Specifically, the message that says, "User is not included in any role, please ask your administrator to include user to roles." We would like to direct users to an inter...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Not under consideration

Agent update from Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who prefers manually trigger agent updates from Instana dashboard. At the moment we have a button "Update Agent" which works when Instana agent has access to the Internet. Many of our customer use Instana and mo...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Log integrations with Grafana Loki logs system

We would like have option to integrate Grafana Loki logs managment with Instana. We are using IBM Openshift environment that ships application and inftrastructure logs to Loki.
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Prior notice is required for releases with screen changes

If the release involves screen changes, Instana users must be notified, educated on user operation, and procedures must be changed. Please share the change information before the screen is actually changed. It is fine to simply have release notes ...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 4 Not under consideration