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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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Enable the line breaks and wrap text options in report columns

In TargetProcess, text fields such as comments are often constrained by column width, leading to incomplete visibility of the data. This limitation hampers the ability to present comprehensive insights, especially at the executive level. To addres...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Ability to select tags to consider in generating anomalies

Currently the anomaly detection works based on the account, service name, usage family and few tags which cloudability assumes which has highest coverage.Issue with this:Because it doesn't let users to select which tags to consider when generating...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

OS filters in mobile app in dashboard

- For Android, we have the list of device type. So it's impossible to filter by the version of Android (Android 14, Android 15, ...). - For iOS, we have only iOS or iPadOS. So it's impossible to filter by the version (iOS 15, 16, 17, ...).
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
23 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Enhancement Request: Utility for Syntax Validation of Probe Properties and nco_pad.conf Files Without Restart

Description: We would like to request an enhancement in the Netcool/OMNIbus suite to include a utility or feature that can validate the syntax of the following configuration files without requiring a component restart: Probe properties files (*.pr...
24 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Official Terraform Provider / IaC

Need to have an official Terraform provider that is managed by Cloudability and takes into account all the latest features.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review