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over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Is a defect

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Asset Class in Summary Tab

Currently asset class column is only part of Asset tab, so dropdown values will be shown only in Asset tab. You can use Project and Description to help identify the assets but not all assets have a Project ID or a unique description. Could this be...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
9 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Future consideration

SevOne Cisco ACI Solution should write ACI Faults to the Database for Baselining

Currently today the Cisco ACI solution is able to visualize the Fault Messages that are available from the APIC and the POD but is not written to the database. This means that users of the solution can see what is available in real time but can no...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

NMS needs to contain functionality pre process SNMP String type values and based on identifiable returned string values assign an integer/number value and record that as the associated indicator metric value.

Within the area of responsibility for Verizon GTS there are several hundred SNMP objects that need to be tracked the return a STRING value instead of a number or integer. Many of the strings are fixed. e.g. a status code of "active" vs "inactive"....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Delete/nullify result in synthetics

Hello, currently in Instana, we have the synthetics. They run and produce results. We, as users, don't have any possibles interaction regarding those results. We can't validate them, nullify them in case of false positive, delete them, acknowledge...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration