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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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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
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Make release marker selection time based

In the cause of evaluation of usability of release marker information in ci/cd environment we found it would be extremly useful if release marker selection would also optionally timebased.Please note support ticket TS016695080 related.
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Improvement of Display Contents for UNDO Tablespace Usage

The status of the extents in the UNDO tablespace is listed as follows on DBA_UNDO_EXTENTS (oracle.com) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16338_01/server.112/b56311/statviews_5078.htm: ACTIVE EXPIRED UNEXPIRED However, according to information from Oracl...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Self-hosted synthetic pop deployment via stanctl - "stanctl pop up"

Implement`stanctl pop up` including k3s installation.
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Planned for future release

Crash analytics can be implemented using Flutter

I run a PoC in a client's environment using Instana SaaS tenant. Out of several scenarios there is this crash analytics. As the applications built using Flutter framework for dart programming language, their developer expects that Instana crash an...
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Need to create an event when MQ Queue Status goes to Get Inhibited status

This is useful to the Production Support team, when the queue status goes to Get Inhibited status, the message flow cannot read the messages from the MQ queue.
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Add Network Diagram type functionality to Maps visualizations

Customer is requesting, in addition to the "canvas" and "maps" type of visualization for map device/object data and metrics, to add a network diagram type visualization with the ability to use standard icons for network elements (Routers/Switches ...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Asset Depreciation

Currently selecting straight line by depreciation the calculation is Purchase Price divided by Asset life (in months). Is there a way the calculation could be Net Book Value divided by Remaining life.  This is way Oracle calculates and to upl...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Make Instana Agent API available on IPV4

We have a use case where we remote monitoring a database and need to access the instana agent API to generate events/changes/incidents but the API port is only available to the localhost so we cannot access it remotely. Making the APi port availab...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists