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Would like logging in audit log for when an agent is changed from info to debug

Would like for when someone changes the agent log level from info to debug to be logged in the audit trail
23 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Feature Request – Enable Copy Functionality in Rightsizing ROI Screen

We would like to request the ability to copy the contents of individual cells in the Rightsizing ROI screen
23 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Rightsizing

Please add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) rightsizing recommendations, this is a very common deployment option for virtual machines, much like ASG's in AWS. Not having rightsizing support is a big gap in what is common to be a...

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 4 Functionality already exists

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Instana should display the same choprehensive view of OpenTelemetry-collected metrics as it does for our native Instana Agent collected metrics

When viewing standard screens in the Instana UI the same views and components should be displayed no matter how the metrics are collected. For example on the Platforms -> Kubernetes screen when you view a cluster where the Instana Agent is coll...
24 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
12 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration