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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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Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

FX Rate Automation

Integrate FX Rate Automation into Multi Currency - giving Administrators the opportunity to utilize an automated end of month or average rate to convert into their preferred currency.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

report to be able to stack in chart instead of show one single line

it would be useful to see it in a graph not just in table
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Device Manager Alerting exclude option

By default all alert types are shown. Sometimes you only want to exclude certain types such as Debug. Instead the only way is to have to select every available option. NMS provides a better way of doing this using a tick option - by default everyt...
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Report Linking "excludes" operator

DI Report Linking only provides the "includes" operator. Require the "excludes" option. We have reports that need to be excluded for specific cases but enabled for all.
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords
6 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
6 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration