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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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Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
19 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

UI Enhancements

Is there any plan to have better support for text wrapping? Is there any plan for better sizing of card elements in a dashboard view? Text placed on a card should auto size based on the number of characters etc.
5 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Needs more information

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 3 Needs more information

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
3 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache & Elastisearch

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache and Elasticsearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for these services to help optimize...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Needs more information

v3 API /api/v3/data/topn endpoint should allow for aggregationUnits to round to specific timestamps

Currently, V3 /api/v3/data/topn API allows for: AGGREGATION_AUTO (default value of v3 endpoint) AGGREGATION_DAILY AGGREGATION_HOURLY AGGREGATION_MONTHLY AGGREGATION_WEEKLY timespans in its API endpoint. This corresponds to shortterm data buckets o...
14 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

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

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
28 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Needs more information

to add attachment option in email alerting using EWS probe

to enable the email alerting with the attachment. Currently in our environment we are monitoring email alerting with EWS probe in the standard format without any attachment option but we are currently trying to add some attachment in XML format so...
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information