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Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Under review

Left Panel Tornado: option to filter on Favorites

When searching for a view in the left menu, it would be helpful to have a filter checkbox to narrow down the results to "Favorites".
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

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...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Use data from AWS CUR normalized_usage_amount available as Normalized Usage Hours

Using the same normalized usage amount as the CUR provides will allow customers to understand how the flexible RIs are allocated. These kinds of RIs can fluctuate between instances and information on usage amounts will help in understanding why th...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Ability to disable all emails for a particular user or user group

Some users do not want any emails from the system, users (and admins) would like to be able to disable all system notifications for particular users. They do not want emails about shared reports, daily report summaries or alert notifications (vend...
8 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

For container rightsizing, add data on whether horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) is on to the available data

Having information on HPA status is helpful in determining how to respond to rightsizing recommendations. It would be useful for customers to have this in Cldy vs. needing to look to other tools to find this information.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted