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Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Other Tracers 4 Not under consideration

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

AWS VPC Flow Logs Collector

Customer have application running in AWS Cloud and would like to have visibility of all traffic within VPC of all servers including Kubernetes cluster
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Cloud 2 Functionality already exists

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Enable system logs towards syslog destination option

Currently RIA has an option located at Settings> System Configuration >Syslog destination but is not used for generating compliance and authentication logs towards a SIEM (Security Information Event Management) Can this feature include user ...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Mobile Layer DNS break requires just like Web layer request DNs Capture

As we have the mobile app and webapp we wanted to traces the DNS for web and mobile breakups for the mobile app and web app,
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Adding Details on Instana Grafana Plugin Legend Format

On Instana Grafana plugin's legend format, the customer would like to retrieve the infrastructure details such as FQDN name, deployment name, pod name, container name. As soon as they only able to retrieve the MAC address, it wouldn't help to make...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

Organization is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to update the W...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration