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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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Need ways to customize logo for emails Instana sends

Dear colleagues, our customer has asked if we allow to add a custom logo into Instana email notification, would be nice to have that feature for all of on-premises environments. Please consider adding the option Thank you
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Action Script Server integration to capture details such as git repo etc in the UI

Action Script specific to each target account enables variables to be defined when setting up the target. The variables are passed to action script server and include details such as vault credentials, repo containing the code etc. Additional deta...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

support on-prem SQL Server

currently on-prem SQL are not supported, but some of our customer still have on-prem SQL server
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Adjust Catalog Name For Databricks Vendor Connector

Our team was are walking through the steps to connect Databricks to Cloudability using this URL. Specifically, within our Databricks workspace, the catalogs are used by multiple people, so we need to make catalog names unique. Looking at the query...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Add dynamic value tags to alerts in non-global custom payloads

Hi, Can you please add ability to choose dynamic tag values for non-global custom payloads on alerts? Currently this is only available for global custom payload (see attached picture). Best regards,ldrascic
25 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Submitted

SSO Validation for Targetprocess for a token

The security that is currently set up does not meet standards and is concerning that users can access when they shouldn't. For example if a service account token is shared and then a particular user leaves the company because the service account i...
26 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
26 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted