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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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Dynamic discovery of all Filesystems

We have observed that Instana agents auto discovers only local filesystems, for other filesystems we have to define them manually in the configuration yaml file which is tedious task and high chances of missing alerts for newly created filesystems...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Improve Percentage Calculation in Big Number Widget

We need the Big Number widget to accurately calculate and display percentages for metrics like users or sessions affected by crashes or errors. Currently, selecting the percentage option simply multiplies the number by 100, rather than calculating...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One databas...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Changes in roles and permissions model: make them more granular for different actions

Specific more narrow cases: Guest users with limited permissions: ID:145662 Permissions to change workflow states: ID:217178 Permissions to prioritize items: ID:62057 Permissions to view, edit fields: ID:145404 -----   Introduce gro...
almost 10 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Total Cost Default Calendar Settings

In order to view the last full month of cloud activity,  we would like to set the default month to last month not current month.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

User-friendly feature needed: GUI-based preexisting setup/config clone to create new

AS-IS: each new custom setup (incl. observer job config, policy, etc.) we have to manual enter all para one by one. Desired TO-BE: ================= Target use case (NOT limit to, but same principle cross over): #1. Define > Integration (Incl. ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review