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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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Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
12 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Integrate policy scheduling for on prem actions by scheduled maintenance windows

We had purchased a custom integration which was crafted by Ray Mileo and John Fabry which integrates scheduled maintenance windows in our turbonomic solution which creates policies based on configured maintenance windows / patching cycles of our W...

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

I would like to be able to create policies with someone other than "Site Administrator".

Many systems are already managed by one Turbonomic, but we want to leave policy management to individual system administrators. (a specific non-administrator user on turbonomic who only has limited group acess but able to create new automation pol...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Allow Filtering TopN views based on value (in DataInsight)

When adding a TopN widget to a report, it will currently only allow us to specify the maximum results. To give a cleaner result, it might help to add filter based on i.e. percentage. In the attached screenshot, the regular TopN view is displayed, ...
12 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Limitation to load 10K records in the Service List

Major Telcos could have more than 10K Services. The SOA architecture limitation does not allow more than 10K services to be shown in a single page. The DI widgets provide search option only within the current page which is not a good user experience.
12 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

TopN reports CSV extract has unit in bytes

In today's world, nobody subsribes to services in bits and bytes. The unit should be either in Kbytes or MBytes so that the Customers and Service Managers can do their calculation easily
12 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
12 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted