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Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
26 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Empty Lanes should be hidden by default in lists and roadmaps

Every time someone goes into a view or a list, they need to click on the hide empty lanes. Can this be done by default or programmatically?
26 days ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Future consideration

UI Enhancements

Is there any plan to have better support for text wrapping? Is there any plan for better sizing of card elements in a dashboard view? Text placed on a card should auto size based on the number of characters etc.
26 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Needs more information

Have PNG export reflect what is shown on the screen

Export: Is there any plan to have “export to PNG” actually reflect what is showing on the screen for a report – for example if you exclude something on the screen also have it excluded from the exported picture. Is there any plan to be able to exp...
26 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
26 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
26 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

All tables should have resizable colums

All UI tables should be able to resize its colums in order to see more information. Example: there are some tables that show incomplete urls and other columns that only show a number, but all columns have the same size and cannot be resized to see...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 5 Future consideration