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All tables should have resizable colums

All UI tables should be able to resize its colums in order to see more information. Example: there are some tables that show incomplete urls and other columns that only show a number, but all columns have the same size and cannot be resized to see...
over 1 year ago in Instana / User Interface 5 Future consideration

To onboard HPE Aruba SD-WAN, additional authentication methods such as API keys or TACACS+ are required.

To onboard HPE Aruba SD-WAN, additional authentication methods such as API keys or TACACS+ are required apart from default authentication method ( Silver peak)
7 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 3

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Enable Instana integrations to IBM z/VM

zVM is an IBM Enterprise grade hypervisor and there is currently no way to get performance metrices into Insana. Currently zVM can collect metrics from PERFSVM and send them to InfluxDB which is in turn integrated into Grafana via a product they c...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Add Billing Families, Management Groups and similar as a Filter option for groups

For customers with hundreds of accounts, we often need to filter at higher levels such as AWS Organizations (these do show up in the Search blade under filters under Billing Family, but not in Settings Blade > Groups filters) or even Azure Mana...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Team Alias/NOC Alias Field in Account Settings Page

Add a mandatory team alias (Network operations center email, team distro list) in the account settings page when new accounts are created, for use in proactive outreach around scheduled maintenance, support issues, migrations, and emergency commun...
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS 0 Under review

Notification via Microsoft Teams

Add Microsoft Teams as a new type of Notifier that can be used with Alerts.
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS 0 Under review

Log permission errors, log unsuccessful logins, log IP allow-list failures

Log permission errors (e.g., unsuccessful logins, log IP allow-list failures)
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS 0 Under review