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Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Indicate the specific policy that blocks an action to increase understanding and confidence about the actions

The Problem Lack of visibility into which policy is blocking an action generates several negative effects: Loss of operational traceabilityUsers don't know if the action was blocked by: A disabled automation policy A group with restricted scope A ...
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enable Export of Events Tab Data to CSV or Provide API Query Builder

Instana's Events tab provides valuable insights into application and infrastructure behavior, but currently lacks a straightforward way to export this data for external analysis. I propose adding one or both of the following features: CSV Export...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Enable Alerting on Business Metrics in Instana

Instana currently supports the ingestion of business metrics via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), which is a powerful way to correlate application performance with business outcomes. However, there is no native mechanism to create alerts based on these busin...
23 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Observability to APIC since INSTANA.

Banco Popular of the Dominican Republic needs to integrate INSTANA with APIC, with the goal of observing: _ Provider Organizations_ Catalogs_ APIs (Requests) The problem is that the integration between both products has been underway for over a mo...
5 months ago in Instana / API-C 4 Future consideration

View-Based Filtering for Cost Ownership Accounts in Forecast Summary

Overview: We request the implementation of a filtering mechanism in the Forecast Summary page that limits the "Cost Ownership" dropdown to display only the accounts relevant to the selected planning view. Current Behavior: When creating a plan ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
10 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists