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All historical updates must be retained on entities

Historical updates are not retained for each update unless the updated field is entity state The update is not retained unless 5 minute is passed after the update is made, the idea here is to change the behavior to retain all udpates made on the s...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Add Network Diagram type functionality to Maps visualizations

Customer is requesting, in addition to the "canvas" and "maps" type of visualization for map device/object data and metrics, to add a network diagram type visualization with the ability to use standard icons for network elements (Routers/Switches ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Access Point White/Blacklist for the WLCCollector config.

Similar to how we can disable aggregations and stations in the config files for WLCCollector, we could make a new flag for AP_WL (Access Point Whitelist) and AP_BL_ALL (Access Point Blacklist All). Some great integrations we could do is with AP_WL...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Future consideration

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

IMPROVE AND ALLOW MAP GEO CAPABILITY

1. I would like to duplicate an existing map from the explore->maps screen 2. Map permissions/sharing should mimic reports/shortcuts/etc. public/private/team/tenant/specific users 3. Topology widgets have no way to not be in 'GEO' mode which ne...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Modify Turbonomic recommendations / actions before I approve them

When I negotiate a lesser reduction with an App owner, I would like to modify Turbo’s recommendation and still have Turbo perform the action. Having Turbonomic perform the action is advantageous because Turbo can then report that the action was ta...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

ITP Automated Notifications - Ability to change their verbiage and logo

At every main phase of an IT Planning plan (opening, closing, etc.), communications are sent to cost center and department owners. In order for these emails to be more impactful to customers and for them to not be categorized as spam (or even as p...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enable Cost Object Permissions from ADM

Currently Cost Object Permissions can only be manually loaded into ITP and adjusted from there.  Creating Cost Object Permissions from Master Data in CT and manually adding changes works, until Master Data changes and is updated as this  ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

WebMethods

We need more support for WebMethods from Instana. WebMethods API Gateway 10.11 ( top priority ) WebMethods Developer Portal 10.11 WebMethods BigMemory Max 4.3 (Terracotta) WebMethods Centra Site 10.11
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration