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Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Allow for additional filter logic - combining attributes with OR as well as And.

In the current functionality, when filters are added, you cannot create logic that is (Account IDs = XXXX) OR (Account Names contain YYY). Not having the flexibility to combine data in this way results in creating additional business mappings that...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
12 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Search is not working correctly in eventviewer list with relationship view enabled

There are often scenarios where main events are linked to child events. These relationships can be effectively visualized using the Relationship View in the EventViewer. However, the search functionality does not work correctly when using this Rel...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release