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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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TBM Studio X Cloudability Integration

We learned from Apptio DAT team no direct integration from TBM Studio to Cloudability. This means we need to maintain Tags and Business Mappings manually or using API. This is a major challenge and not feasible for a large organization and project...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 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

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Ensure stacked bar charts can be limited to show set # of elements on the axis, but no limit on the stacking

Right now we either have the option to show an inaccurate chart limited by the "# of rows" feature, or show ALL rows which makes too much data visually available in the chart. These are not good options and we should be able to just show a stacked...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Needs more information

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Ability to select multiple Business Dimensions and use 'Views' to filter by Cloud Provider.

We are unable to utilize the cost sharing model as it does not allow for selecting multiple dimensions (i.e. Not Set or untagged bucket). We are also unable to utilize views by AWS, OCI, GCP or Azure to ensure only one of the providers can be redi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Needs more information

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
7 months ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 0 Needs more information

Prevent user to alter configured Budget cap.

We enter budget forecasts every year for each AWS account and Azure subscription in Cloudability. We would like to prevent users from altering configured budget thresholds. If any changes are required, then the Cloudability admin can update the bu...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Needs more information

For JVM Monitoring customer needs ability to provide application memory leak analysis, lock contentions, process crash analysis

NSB is a Banking customer for Srilanka territory. They are managing thier core banking application with Instana. using Instana for core banking app. Instana Backend (docker development) Deployed in OS: Redhat server 8.8 (Ootpa) Number of reporting...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Needs more information

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