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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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Set Two-Factor Authentication from the Administrator User

What do we expect?: The option to set "Two-factor authentication" (in Settings - User Settings - Personal Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings - Two-factor authentication) in the Instana SaaS Backend ca...
19 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
19 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
19 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Change name of Apdex

Hi, We are using the apdex widget in the custom dashboards. Once the apdex is created, it's not possible anymore to change the name of the apdex. I understand that a clone is needed when changing the threshold or the scope. These configurations ar...
19 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana ServiceNow Service Graph Connector API

Instana currently integrates with ServiceNow for forwarding the events. However, there is no capability available to integrate with the CMDB to sync data. One of our customer is looking for an Observability solution for their IT Infrastructure (50...
19 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
20 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Add Unit of Measure as a Dimension in Cloudability

While Usage Quantity is a metric, the corresponding Unit of Measure if not a dimension that is surfaced in Cloudability. Without Unit of Measure, it is not always possible to tell what is being measure/billed in Usage Quantity (hour, GB, core, etc...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add assignment option at policy creation

When creating policies, there is no option to select an assignee. If the policy creates 250 cloudability issues, then we have to go through each task and manually add the assignee. It would be incredibly helpful to select the assignee name at poli...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Grafana like filtering option on SLO Dashboard

Hello, I wanted to create a SLO dashboard on instana and allow users to toggle between service using a drop down menu rather than creating 1 dashboard per service . Example via Grafana : * Grafana allows users to create variables using certain que...
20 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted