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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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Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Needs more information

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Needs more information

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Needs more information

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Needs more information

When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Needs more information

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
3 months ago in Instana / Azure 1 Needs more information

Possibility to create report on the "Report Collection" table

Give the possibility to create a report allowing to have the information stored in the "Report Collection" Goal should be to obtain easily wat are the selected role assigned to a collection but also the report assigned to it. This will be more eff...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Needs more information

Impact MWM entries export and import option

We are looking for an option to export the all MM entries from GUI. Also, if we have bulk MM entries to add, we are looking for option to add MM entries using excel file import or any such option.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Needs more information