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Column width settings fixed

We would like to have the column width of the different attributes in a list view be fixed. Right now you always have to set the column sizes over and over again every time you go back to a list view. This is super annoying.
6 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Color Coding ability

We need ability to apply color coding to visual table report based on values in its rows for example, if custom field value is true we want to see row in green and when false - in red
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

Send Anomaly Detection Alerts to Account Owners

Our internal Cloud Optimization team would like to use the Anomaly Detection API to send alerts to the owners of accounts that have an anomaly. As of right now you can only set up Anomaly Subscriptions for the API key you are working under. This e...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

User / Group Management (IAM) mapping Automatic view allocation

Need to connect AAD Richemont groups to Cloudability roles with an automatic binding. The roles would be applied to views also. Lifecycle of roles to be managed manually (Users in Frontdoor + Cloudability)
7 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 5 Not under consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

BI - Re-sort Tabs

Ability to re-order tabs created in BI report.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
9 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
11 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration