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Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to Reassign Ownership of Dashboards and Reports

It would be helpful to have a reassign ownership option, similar to Apptio BI, so that when someone leaves the org, they can just change the ownership of their reports. Unless I'm mistaken, the method now for dashboards would be to duplicate a das...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Use Selected Time Period to Populate AutoFill Lists in Filter on a report or dashboard

My understanding is that the last two months of data are used to populate the autofill values on the filter dimensions. For example, if I select Jan - Jun 2025 in the date selection and then add Month (Year) as a filter, the autofill options are 2...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Ability to Send Anomaly Alerts to multiple people

Currently everyone who wants to receive alerts on anomalies has to create their own email alerts because it only sends to yourself. It would be helpful to be able to add multiple people to an anomaly email alert so that multiple people can get not...

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Improve Cloudability Usage Reporting

We are now starting to receive a monthly file that contains Dashboard and Report views from Cloudability. However, the files are missing important data that would make them much more useful. Dashboard file: The Dashboard file contains the date/tim...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review