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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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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 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Support for databricks on AWS EKS

Databricks monitoring is supported in Azure and we need support for this on AWS EKS.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

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

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

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

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

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses For example, suppose there are 3,000 EC2 virtual machines in one AWS account. In that case, under the current Turbonomic structure, 3,000 machines (3,000 licenses) are required on an MVS ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted