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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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• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Allow for Python/SQL data manipulation

Customer would like to be able to use python or SQL to manipulate the data to create table joins and data transformation.  They are familiar with using those methods a
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

No way to write thresholds against custom parameters configured via the "Configuration Based SDK"

If I use the Configuration Based SDK (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk), I can add custom information into the traces. That data can be visualized in the UI. But, there i...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Oracle OpenTelemetry link to db.sqlid.value to open monitor in new window

- Configure a Global link on Opentelemetry data-field: Db.sqlid (might want to make it generic.) - Link opens a predefined link https://<link>/<db.sqlid.value > in a new window. When a user clicks the value to db.sqlid, it opens a new ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page. So i request instana team to list DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Servi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Calculated / Dynamic Columns for Rate * Quantity

Similar to Service Demand Planning, it would be very helpful to have the ability to add calculated columns to ITP for services that are rate * quantity. Currently the dollar amount for volume driven services have to be manually calculated in ITP.&...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add automatic creation/modification system fields for to each plan row

Clients often ask for fields that are easily viewed in the expenses table view to identify who created or modified the row and when. Please add the following automatic system fields to capture that detail. Audit logs are only available to admins a...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add Git Plugin Profile automatically

We have hundreds of BitBuckets repos in our company. For all of them we want to create Git Plugin Profile (see screenshot attached). Doing it manually for every repo would be overkill. It would be very helpful to have some way to automatically cre...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Submitted