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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
about 13 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv2)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
about 18 hours ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Allow Filtering TopN views based on value (in DataInsight)

When adding a TopN widget to a report, it will currently only allow us to specify the maximum results. To give a cleaner result, it might help to add filter based on i.e. percentage. In the attached screenshot, the regular TopN view is displayed, ...
1 day ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Limitation to load 10K records in the Service List

Major Telcos could have more than 10K Services. The SOA architecture limitation does not allow more than 10K services to be shown in a single page. The DI widgets provide search option only within the current page which is not a good user experience.
1 day ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

TopN reports CSV extract has unit in bytes

In today's world, nobody subsribes to services in bits and bytes. The unit should be either in Kbytes or MBytes so that the Customers and Service Managers can do their calculation easily
1 day ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
1 day ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Ability to close connections better from PostgreSQL blocks

At this time, a workflow does not have the ability to directly close a PostgreSQL connect from a PostgreSQL block. As far as I am aware, they instead remain open until they time out, which is typically 10 seconds or so. This enhancement would add ...
2 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted