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Workload sets - currently unable to temporarily override an entity in a workload set so that is not included in any scheduled\manual stop\stop workload set activities

sometime an entity may need to be kept online temporarily if it is being worked on. Similarly an entity may have an issue that requires it still be in the set, but kept offline temporarily.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Under review

Enhance AWS monitoring

The following AWS offerings are not monitored by Instana: AWS Route 53AWS TransitGatewayAWS VPNAWS NetworkFirewallAWS NATGatewayAWS DXAWS CertificateManagerAWS EFSAWS Events
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Customization of trace analytics columns

Right now when looking at traces in the Analytics page there's only 3 columns: Service, Timestamp and Latency. This idea is to be able to customize this list to include other attributes and thus modify the sort order.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Alerting on 95% Percentile for Capacity Planning

Add ability to alert when the X percentile is crosses Y percent. For example, when the 95% percentile crosses 70% over X time.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Under review

Notify admins on system failures (i.e. AR, Metrics, etc...)

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently provide any form of notification or alerting mechanism for system-level errors or failures. This includes—but is not limited to—issues with: Automation rule execution Synchronization failures Lo...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Introducing automatic instrumentation for WebSphere Application Server

Hi Team, We are struggling with configuring website monitoring for a core banking system deployed using IBM WebSphere application server. And we are not getting support from the core banking vendor to add the ieum script provided by Instana and we...
4 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

Show business dimensions in container reporting

Business dimensions add details that are logic driven vs. directly labeled. Customers want to be able to dynamically add additional information based on K8s labels and be able to filter on those in container insights.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Azure Credentialing support for CSP MSPs only

Some MSPs are a CSP only, meaning unlike an MSP who is a CSP and has an MPA with Microsoft, it means they are unable to create a storage account for Cldy cost exports. This is a particular challenge for a number of MSPs.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Oracle.EntityFrameworkCore Overrides EF Core Classes

We are not able to see the OracleDB calls that our containerized .NET Core application make. It appears that Oracle.EntityFrameworkCore overrides some of the internal EF Core classes that Instana's instrumentation relies on. So the base EF Core in...
about 2 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

pouvoir utiliser JSUNTIL et OPENS dans une meme regle de planification.

une application ETA a besoin de créer un schedule qui verifie ce qui suit: le schedule peut se declencher entre 22h et 03h du matin. Le schedule doit se déclencher seulement sur reception de fichier etzjo0aa.etzaaqq* Si le fichier n'est pas arrivé...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review