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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...
about 2 months 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Increase max dimensions available on a Cloudability report

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 dimensions for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 dimensions provides. We currently support 15 dimensions in Apptio BI r...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration