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Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
27 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP. These accounts show up in UI with Red X, which gives the appearance that not all of the accounts have been Advanced Credentialed...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Planned for future release

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
20 days ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Left Panel Tornado: option to filter on Favorites

When searching for a view in the left menu, it would be helpful to have a filter checkbox to narrow down the results to "Favorites".
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration