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Request to Enhance Audit Trail Functionality

Background Currently, Instana provides audit trail capabilities through action logs and access logs.Action logs record changes made by users within Instana, but they do not capture screen navigation within the platform.As a result, for industries ...
8 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Enable Application Log Retention Beyond 90 Days

Background The retention period for application logs is currently limited to a maximum of 90 days.Other APM products allow configuring retention for more than 90 days and provide log archiving features, such as offloading logs to external storage ...
8 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

We'd like to limit users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities withing their team's scope. Currently, there is no limitation at all

Custom events in Instana are governed by global permissions, meaning there is no granular RBAC control for this feature. As a result, users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities outside their team’s ...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

show build level for Power Firmware version

We would like to see the full version for the Power Firmare. For now you can see the base version (For example: P H M Cversion V10R3), but we would like to see everything (For example: V10R3 M1062)
15 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Apptio Demand:::Allow editable table work to persist even during other users' check-ins

Currently if user 'A' is in the midst of editing an editable table, and user 'B' does a check-in, when the screen refreshes for user 'A' at the point in time when user 'B''s check-in has completed calculating, User 'A' will lose any unsaved work i...
22 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Add “Other” Grouping Option in Cloudability Dashboards

Why is it useful? In Apptio BI, users have the ability to enable or disable the “Other” grouping option when displaying results. This setting allows for cleaner and more accurate data visualization by deciding whether smaller categories should be ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Have ability to add generic email to subscriptions (same applies to Anomaly emails and ApptioBI reports)

Currently, as a user I can only subscribe myself to a report, usign the email that my account is associated with.I want to be able to subscribe a generic mail list (e.g. cloud-services@synamedia.com) to a report. This functionality ensure that the...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release