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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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Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
20 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Submitted

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
27 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
2 months ago in Instana 0 Submitted

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
22 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
6 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Set Two-Factor Authentication from the Administrator User

What do we expect?: The option to set "Two-factor authentication" (in Settings - User Settings - Personal Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings - Two-factor authentication) in the Instana SaaS Backend ca...
17 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
17 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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.
6 days ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted