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Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
10 months ago in Instana / Azure 3

Changes in roles and permissions model: make them more granular for different actions

Specific more narrow cases: Guest users with limited permissions: ID:145662 Permissions to change workflow states: ID:217178 Permissions to prioritize items: ID:62057 Permissions to view, edit fields: ID:145404 -----   Introduce gro...
almost 11 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Future consideration

Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration