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On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

When "Allow Flow View Selection" option is selected for a flow widget, also add the "graph remaining traffic" slider button to the widget.

This would benefit consumers of read only reports who may need to be able to toggle the remaining traffic in a flow widget on or off, but can't edit the widget directly to do so.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Node High Availability

This feature request aims to enhance the high availability (HA) of Data Insight. Currently, SDI nodes operate as single-node Kubernetes clusters, with the ability to form multi-node clusters by designating one node as the control plane. However, d...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Enable MSP Control Over Sample Dashboards During User Creation

In MSP and reseller environments, MSPs often manage AWS reservations and savings plans on behalf of their customers. Currently, the EC2 reservation sample dashboard is enabled by default for all newly created users at the customer level and cannot...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

Crash reporting in react-native

The mobile application developers can use the crash analysis feature in Instana to detect, understand, and fix the application crash as soon as possible. Today, Instana doesnt have enabled crash reporting in react-native and customers who have ena...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

3+ Object Reporting

Currently reporting is limited to only 2 objects in one report but there is an increasing ask for multiple object reporting for CIO/CFO detailed reporting. The ask is to increase the number of objects to 3 at the least to enable more granular vie...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Improve the executed actions widget

The user experience of executed actions widget currently is poor. It should be completely revamped. Some ideas are: 1) Include the policy name which caused the action to be executed automatically. Right now it just says system. 2) When an action f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration