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Sorting by top n results broken down by month or day, should show top n results for each time period

Currently in Apptio BI, if you create a report with a single dimension and single cost metrics, you can sort the data by top results based on the metrics or dimension values. Once you select the "View by" field to any other than "none", you loose ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Delete/nullify result in synthetics

Hello, currently in Instana, we have the synthetics. They run and produce results. We, as users, don't have any possibles interaction regarding those results. We can't validate them, nullify them in case of false positive, delete them, acknowledge...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Mean on each call for the synthetics

Hello, today when we create a synthetic, we can view in the result tab the informations about each call and subcall. My idea would be to create a new tab on the synthetic view that compile a mean for each value of each calls on all the synthetic r...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Need feature enhancement for device and object group creation

Currently, when creating a device group using metadata, the model defaults to OR logic and does not support using two or more metadata fields with AND logic. We request a feature that allows the use of AND logic for more precise group creation.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Get Parking recommended actions

Get Parking recommended actions for Azure.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
8 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Surface Mongo organisation name in addition to ID

In MongoDB cost data integration, only the Organisation ID is surfaced as accounts in the vendor credentials but we have both the friendly name and id in the Mongo cost data. please can we surface the friendly name also so we do not need to create...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration