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Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Under review

Team.ID in Validation Rule instead of just Author.ID

Please expand the possibilities of the Validation Rules. Currently I have to write code only saying these Author.IDs can / can't do something. If a have a large list of Authors, the use of a Team.ID would make the rule easier to update.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Future consideration

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Planned for future release

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 4

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

We want UNIX/WINDOWS job to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state bassed on the output in Job logs/output.

We want to use this functionality- (Using the variable "this.stdlist" to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state) with Unix/Windows Job definition. Currently this functionality only works with executable job types. All the Jobs types have advance optio...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Incorrect Call Tracing in Instana with Oracle Service Bus

We are using Instana to monitor our Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Their Oracle Service Bus (OSB) plays a central role in handling both internal and external service communications. However, they have observed an issue in the Instana Analysis Dash...
4 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Not under consideration

Need SSH support for kex algorithm diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256

We recently encountered an issue where ITNM is not support the kex algorithm supported by the device we want to interrogate.
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
9 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2