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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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Missing examples of REGEX expressions when creating a Dynamic filter on new UI

On old UI, Turbo displays a "?" symbol when you create an REGEX filter that shows 4 examples of REGEX expressions and how to use on Turbo. On the new UI, it does not show these tips. It would be good to bring these help tips back to the new UI.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

In every list-based widget, show the number of rows visible vs the total rows in its data-set.

It's currently not possible to know how much data is in each widget. The metadata is the only that show page counts but, in that case, not how many rows per page.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Latency Alerts in http requests in Mobile Apps perpective

We believe that adding latency alerts in Instana's mobile app dashboard would significantly enhance our monitoring capabilities. Currently, while we can observe the latency of Android app calls, we are unable to create smart alerts based on this m...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Inclusion of Azure Web App in drop down in Commitment Portfolio

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 2 Submitted

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 3 Needs more information