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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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Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache . It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive gre...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
15 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Include- for Windows OS (Pagefile) utilization in your RAM sizing . Also in the Linux OS space (Swap usage) - "RAM sizing , stack-improvement"

When I review size down actions related to a VM running Windows OS / RAM usage I find that I disagree with some of those size down actions b/c they don't factor in Page file usage isn't factored into this decision . A hypothetical example of this ...

Enable tag-based filtering to pre-snooze rightsizing recommendations directly in the Cloudability UI

The API currently supports filtering (pre-snoozing) rightsizing recommendations by tags, but this functionality is missing from the UI. Adding this feature would allow users to filter (pre-snooze) recommendations directly in the interface without ...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
4 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Allow for Azure Memor Metrics collection via Azure Monitor Logs

Microsoft will be depreciation Memory collection via the Azure Diagnostics extension. This will require the use of a monitor agent and Azure Monitor. Customer already has memory collection using Azure Monitor Logs. Since this isnt current supporte...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Submitted