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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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Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
19 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Submitted

View-Based Filtering for Cost Ownership Accounts in Forecast Summary

Overview: We request the implementation of a filtering mechanism in the Forecast Summary page that limits the "Cost Ownership" dropdown to display only the accounts relevant to the selected planning view. Current Behavior: When creating a plan ...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time.

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time. For widgets that only have 3 or 4 categories the current functionality works fine but if th...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Ability to Hide Dimensions in Cldy from End Users

There are some dimensions that are CSP specific and others that are duplicates (when we have to create an account group or business dimension for the dimension to be available for utilization reporting for example). It would be helpful to be able ...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

support FastApi 0.115.8 and Celery version 5.5.2 to monitor Python nodes

Looks like Instana does not supports this version for FastApi "0.115.8" and Celery version "5.5.2" Instana requires following version only to enable container monitoring for Python docker services We are using instana version as = 3.4.1 when we ar...
19 days ago in Instana / Python 4 Functionality already exists

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
24 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Add compare feature for Labor

On other parts of the planning section in Apptio you can compare different plans to each other. Could we get that functionality in the labor section of the tool?
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Instana UI has internal feature under Analyze infrastructure called "Graph" to visualize the Host entities combined together . I request this feature to deploy publicly.

I was on call with IBM customer for PHP Tracer showcasing the current support for AWS fargate. I used test-pink environment for the demo where they saw the graph feature of instana available only internally. They showed very keen interest to have ...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Make Utilisation data available for Azure customers

Currently utilisation data is not available in the reports blade for Azure resources. I believe this is because the utilisation data is not available in the billing export as it is for AWS. This is very confusing for customers who often see exactl...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted