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Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 8 Not under consideration

Support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC Driver

We use Fujitsu Symfoware database on mission critical system. This is one of the core component in the system. Could you add the support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC driver. Based on the Fujitus document, Fujitsu Symfoware is based on the PostgreSQL...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Not under consideration

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

Need to separate owner group mapping to prevent locking owners out

Hello Colleagues, we have several customers who locked out owner's user account while configuring LDAP mapping. It is one time operation, but affects all enterprise customers and often causes questions, requires several attempts in self-hosted env...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Targetprocess - Test Case - History - Do not log useless information

As a Targetprocess user of any sort (tester, developer, management), I would like to be able to use the Test Case 'History' tab efficiently without unnecessary noise, so that I can easily find the information I am looking for. As it currently stan...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Not under consideration

Team Iteration Column Header Adjustment

Out of the box, the column header for Team Iterations is configured in a way that is confusing to most companies/teams/users -- details are currently based on Assigned Effort and Velocity (total effort completed), but they should be based on Assig...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 3 Not under consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Custom time range to schedule an instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration