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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...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Email Subscription of Reports: Increasing Character Limit, adding various fonts, hyperlinks and dynamic date in email body

University of Pennsylvania is looking to set up an email subscription to more than 200 users who can view the email in a specific format (which includes a different font of the email body- with bold, hyperlinks, dynamic dates, font options). The c...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Planned for future release

Possible filters in History tab

With automation rules and metrics putting a lot of records in history, it’s very difficult to find who changed a field in the past. I think it would be perfect if we had the possibility to have a dropdown where you select a “field” which you want ...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 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