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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 the ability to create new user roles or edit existing default ones

The rationale behind this stemmed up when I was trying to allow a user or multiple teams to edit maps inside DI. hen I found out I have to assign either "Super Admin" or "Tenant Admin" role to the target user/group in order to have this permission...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Enable Group selection on the Plan Feature 'Host Clusters to Merge'

Hi, I am requesting to be able to pick groups of hosts on the plan feature "Host Clusters to Merge". Cause we have different groups for our clusters and hosts and I am not able to use them for the plan feature and have to pick the clusters manuall...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Increase size of summarization and pruning agent tables columns

There is an a discrepancy between the columns lengths in CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis and CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis_(H,D,W,M,Y). All time related decimal columns in S&P columns are defined as DEC (31,2) and do not match with CICSplex_...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Instana - Update Prebuilt Dashboard for Tuxedo sensor

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues dashboard, we see commas for the Sender PID and Receiver PID columns. However, for the Servers grid on that same page, the PID column doesn't have any commas:1) Please remove the commas fr...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Custom dashboards - Jump to analytics view in custom dashboard based on widgets metrics, aggregations, filter queries

We though it would be cool if it would be possible to jump from custom dashboard panel to analytics just as in application perspective summary.
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Support for Elasticsearch 8.12.x

Hi team, Customer has been using Elasticsearch for a few years and asked support since version 8.1.x but now has 8.12.x and the latest we support is 8.11.x Please enable support for version 8.12.x, this is important to monitor production systems. ...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Alerts for required time only.

We have some application running in Day time and 5 days a week and don't want to monitor alerts after hour. If we can add time frame while creating alert that will give the user to ability to set alerts for specific time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Instana EKS Fargate support

Please support AWS EKS fargate. Instana is the best solution for cloud native environment monitoring. Considering it, EKS fargate need to be supported, because if user is focusing cloud native, then EKS fargate is in their target list. BP NSSOL th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / Tracing 5 Future consideration