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Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Topology REST API for the Service Now

We need to expose the Topology REST API for the Service Now team to consume. However, the authentication of the API is limited to HTTP Basic, and current the only available username/password pair is from a K8s secret. As confirm by this support ti...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Ability to verify the expiration date of the “update access keys” from the Hardware Management Console

This feature enables the verification of the expiration status of the “update access keys” within the Hardware Management Console. It ensures that administrators can monitor and prevent interrupted access to system updates and hardware management ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Search the runbookInstances with Date&Hour filter instead of simple

The AIOPS Runbook Activities page doesnt allow the user to filter based on the hour of the day. Having this option will help filter better when runbooks > 1000 in a short window.
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review