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Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

The Rightsizing Jira integration should reference issue_id not issue_key to ensure linking connection.

Sometimes a Jira ticket for a rightsizing opportunity is created on one board and then it is determined another team needs to own the work so the Jira ticket is moved to that teams board. If this happens the integration back into Cloudbaility for ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Add sorting options on DI widgets

For UI/UX matters, it would be very useful to be able to save widgets/views in either ascending or descending values, or by certain attributes, but the option is not available. Sorting and saving the report doesn't actually saves it organized as d...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 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"....
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Widget Descriptions

The ability to add a short descriptor within the widget or being able to hover over a widget and see the descriptor
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Inclusion of Azure Web App in drop down in Commitment Portfolio

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 3 Future consideration