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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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Memory Leak Reboot Task - Schedule Control

Hi Folks, I was told in response to a support case that I should raise this issue as a possible improvement. This would be to allow control of the scheduling of the Memory Leak Reboot Task as there appears to be no way to control when this task is...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Support for RDQM DR scenario

Dear Colleagues, following the documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#replicated-data-queue-manager-rdqm-support we support RDQM HA scenario only, but we have an engagement with lar...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0

Need to Generate report in CSV format through the report scheduling feature.

Need to Generate report in CSV format through the report scheduling feature. Currently, receiving reports in PDF format and cannot find an option for CSV.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Access Admin integrated with Usage data reporting

Integrate Access Admin data with Usage to provide reporting that includes role granted/changed, last time logged in, environment accessed, persona, and customization for persona or organization data. Use case 1: Our security protocol requires user...
5 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
5 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted