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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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Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on them

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on EC2 and EKS. Support is need for applications written using GoLang, Nodejs, .net core, java. We also need support for opentel.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Functionality already exists

Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Snapshot Forecast Version compare across any periods in A1

As a Service Owner I want to be able to compare my forecast version across any periods (i.e. P01-P12) in A1.  So, that I can see what is my forecast version in any period compare to any other period.  In addition, the version should not ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Export list of Datalink Connectors with details

Customer would like to be able to export an Excel file containing details to all their Datalink connectors- Name, Type, Group, Last Run, Next Scheduled Run, Agent, Destination, Source, Schedule, etc. This will allow them to effortlessly create a d...
6 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Update Java clients such as Administrator GUI to enable authentication with ObjectServer using user account passwords with more than 30 characters.

FixPack 24 enabled non-java based clients to utilize passwords having more than 30 characters when authenticating with an ObjectServer. This is great for probes/gateways however it is preferred to enable the java-based clients (e.g. Administrator)...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Provide a means to automate creating NOI Incidents from Events in NOI - to be used for the customer for a consolidated view of thier issue with a easily added URL

Customer coming to NOI Dashboard with lot of events - can be overwhelmed and will not want to use the noise interface - while the consolidated view in the NOI Incident Module is consolidated to thier issue(s).
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration