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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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New Formula RowIf

Looking for a new formula function like Row() where returns the number of the current row in the current table but with a IF statement. Example below where we could generate a running numbers (Column B) based on the same category (Column A). Thank...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

make rate of two custom events alertable

Currently we are able to create eg. smart alerts on a metrik over custom range of http between codes >= 400 and <= 500. But there is no way to relate that to another metrik e.g. custom range of http codes between >= 200 and < 400 as 'g...
7 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 6 Functionality already exists

Get logged in user of DASH in JSP widgets

If you want to build connections with other systems, it is useful to be able to correctly identify the logged in user.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation.

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation. This scenario is potentially very usefull for customer (it has on-prem installation).
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

Add Instana built-in metric for table spaces status (normal or abnormal)

I would like Instana has a built-in metric for table spaces status, the return value represents normal or abnormal. After this built-in metric available, then I can trigger an alert based on this built-in metric. Here is db2 reference about table ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Indicate the reason for alert (e.g. instana-builtin, instana-custom-rule, etc.)

When an alert is fired, we never know its source. Would be great to have in the Alert itself an information of where it's coming from (smart alert, builtin, custom event, etc.)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Correlation Between AWS RDS and AWS Lambda Native Tracing

We propose an enhancement in Instana to improve the correlation between AWS RDS databases and services detected by AWS Lambda Native Tracing. Currently, we experience a lack of visibility and correlation between these components, which impacts our...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Attach event payload to resolve events for PagerDuty integration

Events sent via the Instana-PagerDuty integration can be routed to different alerting services inside PagerDuty based on rules triggered by certain payloads. Instana alert trigger events include this payload but resolve events do not. This means t...
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Allow View Permissions to be different than Folder/Group Permissions

I wanted to set up standard groups that would contain many different views some of which I may or may not have permissions to. This would allow all reports to be in one group but only the reports that I have access to would I be able to view.
almost 8 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2