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Alerting based on content of logs

Some erroneous calls might be considered OK based on the logs of that call, so with the new feature we should be able to alert only when specific logs appear and also exclude some logs from generating an alert. This way the client could reduce the...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Not under consideration

Filter entities in Quick add by role and project

Currently, when using Quick Add, users see all the entities in the instance, including different terms defined in different projects. It does not appear that these are limited based on what projects the user is assigned to nor what permissions the...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Advanced filtering management on business mapping without having to use API queries

Integration in the query interface with several simultaneous conditions
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Not under consideration

Allow Views defined within Widgets take priority over Page View

Allow the widget be configured with a hard view. This will allow to create multiple widgets within a page based on view filtering
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Not under consideration

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

See which notification box was checked when comment was created

When adding a comment there are checkboxes to notify creator/assigned people. The customer would like to see which option was checked when creating a comment in the history.
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Smart alerts - ability to select any created application

Hi, It would be useful to allow selecting any created application perspective in smart alerts. Currently you can only select application perspectives which had calls (excluding synthetic calls) in last 24h. This is very inpractical if you want to ...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Hitachi Storage target support required for Turbonomic

We have received a request from IAG (Insurance Australia Group) to reinstate the support of monitoring Hitachi Storage through Turbonomic because it is IAG's core on-premise storage. IAG is in phase of adapting Turbonomic ARM across the organisati...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 3 Not under consideration

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration