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Feature Enhancement Request: VM Extension-Based Filtering, Search, and Grouping

Benefits Operational Efficiency: Quickly identify and remediate VMs with missing or failed extensions. Compliance & Monitoring: Ensure all VMs meet required extension configurations. Automation Support: Enable scripting and automation based on...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow scheduled BI dashboard reports to be delivered in Excel (XLSX) or CSV format, in addition to PDF.

Currently, Cloudability only supports scheduled BI dashboard report delivery via email in PDF format. For reporting flexibility, we would like the ability to receive scheduled dashboard exports in CSV or Excel format. This would enable better data...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release