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Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Role type restrictions for views / folders / reports

Only approved users (Admins + approved users) should have access to share the views, reports, dashboards, folders with Portfolios and Public This leakage results in astronomically high number of entries in the Left Nav Team level can continue As P...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1

Lack of error messaging

Several reports when fails results in ambiguous error message and at times grammatically incorrect, need error definitions and what they mean for awareness.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Users should not have to learn meta translation

Users should not have to learn meta translation (Portfolio in front end = project in back end) Feature Toggle for terms: does this allow to use renamed terms in DSL and Reporting?
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Cannot clone whole folders of views

We cannot clone whole folders of views. The cloning feature only allows you to copy individual views, not nested folders or dashboards with their widgets. The cloning feature doesn't support duplicating entire folders or dashboards with all their ...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Cannot remove yourself as owner of a view even if there is another owner assigned

Cannot remove yourself as owner of a view even if there is another owner assigned. Attaching the screenshot of the issue for better understanding.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Third level hierarchy of the left navigation is very limiting

Third level hierarchy of the left navigation is very limiting. Need more nested levels and a way to manage and move items quickly
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to apply complex filtering and variable filtering to Views.

Need the ability to apply complex filtering and variable filtering to Views. (e.g. establishing variable condition rather than text only. Or applying conditional filtering based on selection of a prior context filter)
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review