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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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Add "load more" button to see more than 10 items on the tile instead of grouping under others. Or add option while creating editing tile to add more than 10 items in the list.

Add "load more" button to see more than 10 items on the tile instead of grouping under others. Or add option while creating editing tile to add more than 10 items in the list.
12 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.Currently there is no functionality to do this in the UI.
12 months ago in Instana / Common 3 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Populating SRC_TRANSPORT & DST_TRANSPORT Metadata for Versa

We have a situation that a Versa customer wants to create specific alert policies based on source tunnel type (transport) and destination tunnel type. Today, the solution only captures the tunnel type on the source side utilizing the object type. ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 1 Delivered

Change the Memory Setting in "Host Templates" to Gigabytes rather than Megabytes

Due to the size of memory in all hardware now having the memory setting in megabytes takes some additional time to work out as have to calculate the exact MB amount when converting from GB in machine. Would be easier to have the memory amount sett...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Delivered

Add node_module prom-client to synthetic-pop-javascript-playback-engine

Intro: This idea, makes alot of sense for people that wants to use synthetic checks to query a prometheus endpoint. Implementation from your side is simply add the prom-client module in synthetic checks pods. Description: If you add the prometheus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

SmartModel driver for Cisco IE-3300 for OS 17.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Delivered

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 8 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered