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Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Limit communication between PSS and DS to a specific eth interface

In an environment where servers have multiple eth interfaces it, all the traffic between PSS and DS ought to happen only between those interfaces that are specified in collation.properties. Currently, despite configuring DS <-> PSS communica...
5 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Filters in Cloudability financial planning

When building a plan in Cloudability Financial Planning, we want the ability to include or exclude specific elements—such as credits, marketplace charges, taxes, and others—just like we can currently do in Apptio BI Finance is building the budgets...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

AD groups feature should allow assigning a default view to the group

Recently released AD group integration in Cloudability only allows user to share view with a group. We would want to be able to assign a default view to a group, so any new group member would have a default view assigned scoped to the given group.
3 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Ability to have separate Team Workflows even if there is more than one Final State in the default Workflow for User Stories

Allowing separate Team level workflows when there are two final states would allow us to still have a Cancelled Final State and a Done Final State, but still allow teams to expand for additional states on Workflows to better process their work. Ke...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Not under consideration

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3

Ability to hide dashboards from my own list

On the list of all dashboards for an org, I would like the ability to hide dashboards that I do not need. When a user shares a dashboard with an entire org, everyone gets it whether they want it or not and this can create a long list of dashboards.
23 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration