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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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PowerHMC: Allow grouping systems based on location and display it in the infrastructure view

We plan to monitor multiple datacenter. We will like to group the systems based on location or customer and display it in the infrastructure view.
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

Charge Back Sub-units/Teams and monitor/govern their License usage

As a Customer, who provides Instana as a service inside an organisation - I would like to have the capability to see which Application Team (via Agent Key or Application Perspective etc.) has used how many APM/IQM Licenses. In order for me to gove...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

New Agent Key in case of leak or security concerns

As customer I want to ensure that when the Agent Key leaks, nobody can abuse the Key and do harmful things with it. To be able to manage (add, manage, delete) the Keys (Sub-Keys) inside the Instana UI would help to monitor and govern who has acces...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Add Missing Chart Types in Dashboard View

For the New Relic Migration, we need to be able to have the same Dashboards with Instana as we had with New Relic.We noticed that some Chart Types are missing.And sorted them by our usage:1. Table,2. Bullet,3. Histogram (dyn. Bucket def.),4. Funne...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Add Formulas and Operators for Calculation into Query Editor ( Dashboard and Alerting)

Use Case:----------- Create new metrics on the fly via calculation (e.g percentage / relative metrics from count numbers)- Sum up values on custom metrics / Business calculations. Desired Solution:------------------- Add Calculation options into t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Custom Events for Multidimensional Data

For the New Relic to Instana Migration we need the New Relic Feature "Custom Events", which is used by the our Teams via the NR SDK to store custom multidimensional metrics. These multidimensional Metrics are used for: - adding technical Metrics, ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration

Add built-it metric to monitor top queries running more than 1 hour

In current Instana, monitor the top queries running more than 100 seconds, this 100 seconds is too short in our case. We want to monitor the running queries more than 1 hour. Please add this capability, thanks.
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to switch between versions of API documentation

The customer would like to have an ability to switch between versions of API documentation: https://instana.github.io/openapi/. Currently, we are able to see only the latest version without any possibility to switch to any other version.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / API-C / Common 2 Not under consideration

Customer wants the roadmap for Instana to cover the Cloud Native services mentioned in the attached sheet.

IBM is responding to an RFP by HDFC Bank Ltd and pitching IBM Instana/ Watson AIOPS Event Manager / SevOne with a potential deal size of $8-10M. Customer wants clarification on whether the Cloud Native services in the attached sheet already is / w...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 2 Not under consideration