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Have PNG export reflect what is shown on the screen

Export: Is there any plan to have “export to PNG” actually reflect what is showing on the screen for a report – for example if you exclude something on the screen also have it excluded from the exported picture. Is there any plan to be able to exp...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 1 Future consideration

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Container Platform Resize vCPU & vMem Reclaim Amounts

Similar to VMs in VMWare systems pending actions view show the Resize vCPU & cMEM Reclaim amounts, it would be useful to show similarly for Container Platforms same total Reclaim amounts when demonstrating the potential goodness of doing Conta...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Unused Business Mapping, Account Groups, and Tags – Identification & Housekeeping

Currently, customers create tags, account groups, and business mappings that are applied across reports and dashboards. However, over time, some of these objects may no longer be in use—either because the business context has changed, projects hav...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review