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Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Ability to share a report with a 'Microsoft Entra ID' group.

It will be usefull if we are able to share a report to a group of people based on 'Microsoft Entra ID' group. As a large company, we have systems that group people into groups and keep those groups up to date. Which is not the case at individuals ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add “Other” Grouping Option in Cloudability Dashboards

Why is it useful? In Apptio BI, users have the ability to enable or disable the “Other” grouping option when displaying results. This setting allows for cleaner and more accurate data visualization by deciding whether smaller categories should be ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Custom header support Required for Oracle IAM OIDC integration - during the OIDC token exchange phase, the Oracle IAM server requires an additional custom header (see TS020460410), not possible in DI or NMS?

Enhance or future-proof sign-on compatibility.
5 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
5 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Cloudability MongoDB connector should support cluster tags

Customer wants to use the cluster tags and they want to use in cloudability.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Add "Advanced" tab to Edit SNMP Object Type editor

Advanced mode of the Edit SNMP Object Type editor extends the capability of adding more attributes to the object during discovery. There is an idea already contributed where some of the OIDs polled may be used for metadata attributes but this Adva...
9 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Quick search for Alert Viewer

1.6.x Alert Viewer search bar does not support multiple search conditions. For example, user's will sometimes want to search for events with server name = 'xyz' that have summary text = 'something happened'. As of today, the search bar only accept...
30 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review