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In the NMS interface display tables consistently and make number of items on a page fit the page.

The system has many different ways to display tables on the screen. Ideally figure out how many rows fit on the current page and then page through them.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to toggle the X/Y axis date/time for heatmaps

Hi there...I have a customer that would like the ability to swap the X/Y axis for Heatmap widgets. Right now, the date is on the Y axis and the aggregation period is on the X axis. In other products' heatmaps (as the customer is transitioning from...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Lack of error messaging

Several reports when fails results in ambiguous error message and at times grammatically incorrect, need error definitions and what they mean for awareness.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Instana OpenTelemetry Correlation for Pure OTel Scenarios

We have a pure OpenTelemetry setup where the OtelCollector directly exports data to the Instana SaaS backend, without any Instana Agent in between. Currently, entity correlation across layers like ApplicationPerspective > Service > Endpoint ...
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 3

Data ingestion for OCI

Currently there are limmited options to ingest data from OCI if you do not have access to the master account. In our oganisation we are the child tenant of a master organisation, therefore we are having difficulties ingesting the CUR from OCI. ORA...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Dashboard Customization

Currently, Dashboard views allow you to drag and drop lists onto it.  If two are dropped on the same lane they will appear next to each other, however user would like to change the width instead of it being even.
over 3 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 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

Rightsizing opportunities for Azure Recovery Services

Customer would like to request the addition of rightsizing optimisation capabilities for Azure Recovery Services (ASR). This feature would allow customers to automatically evaluate and recommend optimal virtual machine (VM) sizes and configuration...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration