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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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Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
16 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Requesting functionality to prevent the complete loss of data for IEN Calc object values in the event of data timeliness issues with member objects.

IEN CALC objects having frequent gaps in CDN calc objects 1. Alerting not reliable.2. the ability to "true up" the calc object values if member object data is delayed.3..the ability to see aggregate traffic values for remaining objects within the ...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Needs more information

Need to trace core banking application based on Temenos

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Temenos software as a core banking application and they miss tracing of the application. There are few traces: - com.temenos.t24 - com.temenos.tafj (com.temenos.tafj.runtime.statements.jStatements:READ) pleas...
19 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Add Snapshot Launch date

We would be able to see the date when a snapshot has been created and would be able to monitor the existence and cost of a snapshot by filtering on the launch date column. This would enable us to address historic snapshots that are no longer requi...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Better alignment between Containers UI and Container Reporting

Customer would like to see more alignment for future releases. The differences caused confusion and inconsistency when reporting across CLDY.
23 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Pin the global Views box on reports

Other controls, such as global filters, are pinned so that they remain on the top of the screen as the user scrolls through the dashboard. Doing the same with Views would allow the customer to quickly see if there are any restrictive views which m...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Mass "insufficient authority" errors in a log for SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

Dear Colleagues, due to security policies the customer is not able to grant access to the special queue. Hence they experience the following error in a log: Error: 2025-05-20T07:10:58.879Z AMQ8077W: Entity 'mqumon01' has insufficient authority to ...
25 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Ability to have a longer look back period for Rightsizing Recommendations

The desire is to have the ability to select more than 30 days for the look back period for Rightsizing Recommendations. Looking for at least 90 days.

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted