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Remove the need of 'Log on locally' requirement to be set for accounts, without breaking functionallity of IWS application and components.

In our organization providing accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our security requirements. Installing the product with the options set is OK but we look for that option ...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.

Our goal is to limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Planned for future release

API for threshold creation and query

Hi Team whatever in Restful API v2 or v3, we can see there are lack of useful API to query and create the threshold for device Pain point: In API v2, we can only see an API to fetch all metric threshold, it can't fetch by device ID. If the number ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

Email Subscription of Reports: Increasing Character Limit, adding various fonts, hyperlinks and dynamic date in email body

University of Pennsylvania is looking to set up an email subscription to more than 200 users who can view the email in a specific format (which includes a different font of the email body- with bold, hyperlinks, dynamic dates, font options). The c...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration