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Not very helpful generic VR message on a list view

While deleting a time record, user is seeing a very generic error message which is not meaningful and not helpful for a dev team for debugging purpose.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Need a batch update for Features to set the Planning Interval

When doing a PI planning event, I want to start with a list of prioritized features. Once I have identified which ones to include in the PI, I want to multi-select them and set them to the appropriate Planning interval.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Functionality already exists

Validation Rules - Suppress the rule id in error message

Validation Rules - Suppress the rule id that appears along with the error message on UI as it is not meaningful from a business user's perspective, it may be helpful for someone from dev team in debugging but from and end users' perspective, it co...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize entity order in Quick Add list

I would like to be able to change the order of presentation of entities in the Quick Add list - either via a sorting rule or a custom order.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 2 Under review

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Ability to export logging of all configuration changes for a period of at least 12 months

To avoid a deficiency from the IT audit we would need to have a logging of all configuration changes for a period of at least 12 months and preferred for 15 months.
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Change the Instana Logo on the Homepage and Login Page

Our customer would like to replace the IBM Instana logo on the homepage and login page with their own logo.
11 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Audit history for validation rule

log of configuration changes of validation rule
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration