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When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

The JSON Audit files should be valid JSON

The audit files that IWS stores in JSON format may not always be valid JSON documents. Specifically, the value for "actionDependentContents" may make the document unparsable. For example, in this record, the quotes in the value of "actionDependent...
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
9 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Request to Add IP Address Restriction for Instana Tenants

[Request] Datadog already has an IP address restriction*, but Instana does not. *https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/org_settings/ip_allowlist/ Our customers have strict security requirements, so they have set up a jump server specifical...
9 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
9 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
5 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration