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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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Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
17 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Monitoring Appeon platform

Appeon PowerServer is a tool that converts client/server PowerBuilder applications into cloud installable applications, Appeon PowerBuilder is an application development tool that allows creating applications, through PowerBuilder the client is cr...
17 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Business or work day of month option for scheduling

(This is in relation to earlier idea https://community.apptio.com/idea/work-day-schedule, which was marked incorrectly as delivered.) Please add a recurrence option when scheduling connectors to use business or work days for monthly schedules. Be...
8 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Connectivity into Apptio via AWS

Hi I know Apptio is standalone application, and it could be possibly hosted anywhere. Now it's hosted on AWS. I work in large organization, and we are also using AWS, which is trusted partner for us. It makes it much easier from data governanc...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
about 2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

possibility to dectivate or change the behavior of imported kubernetes policy

For proper segregation, it is essential to have the ability to disable or modify the values of policies imported from Kubernetes. Our current challenge is that we need to exclude certain actions that the product currently suggests for sidecars. Wi...
about 7 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Submitted

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
28 days ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted