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Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tools

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Ability to Hide Dimensions in Cldy from End Users

There are some dimensions that are CSP specific and others that are duplicates (when we have to create an account group or business dimension for the dimension to be available for utilization reporting for example). It would be helpful to be able ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Support for Simple Calculated Expressions Within Cloudability Dashboard Widgets

Currently, Cloudability dashboards allow users to display predefined values in widgets. However, it would be highly beneficial if users could define simple expressions or calculations directly within widget columns. For example: Calculating the di...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration