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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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Ability to export logging of all configuration changes for a period of at least 12 months

To avoid a deficiency from the IT audit we would need to have a logging of all configuration changes for a period of at least 12 months and preferred for 15 months.
11 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Correlation Between AWS RDS and AWS Lambda Native Tracing

We propose an enhancement in Instana to improve the correlation between AWS RDS databases and services detected by AWS Lambda Native Tracing. Currently, we experience a lack of visibility and correlation between these components, which impacts our...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Attach event payload to resolve events for PagerDuty integration

Events sent via the Instana-PagerDuty integration can be routed to different alerting services inside PagerDuty based on rules triggered by certain payloads. Instana alert trigger events include this payload but resolve events do not. This means t...
6 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Send notification to mailing list outside of TP

The idea is to be able to send email notification for the mailing list outside of the Targetprocess.
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Request to consider the automation of Check and correct the permission of <Default User> user id in Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

For Kyndryl, there is a requirement from IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) - Annual Review for Technical Specifications with NO CIS Benchmark, it is required to automate the following operation for <Default User> on TEPS:"Deny the following privil...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Add ability to send email to ALL users

I would be very helpful to have the ability to send an email to ALL users. We are an on-prem installation.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 1 Not under consideration

Would like Centralized Agent upgrade process to support deployment of iFixes

Currently, if we want to deploy an iFix for our FTA/DA agents we have to create an install script and then remote into each server and manually apply the iFix.It would be nice if installing an iFix was as easy as deploying a FixPack via the centra...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Save Filter, Group and Facet settings in Analytics, like Infrastructure saved filters

Analytics is great, however is a burden to repeat the filter/group criterias, and sometimes also the facets. I know, I could get the shortlink to the panel, but what happens if I miss the link ? Yes, redo everything from scratch. Please consider t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Enhance options to resize columns in reports

Problem:   We currently have to manually resize the months columns when using any time element in a report (Months, Year to Date, etc.).  Even worse we need to do this for the same month column, but for a different year.  I bel...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration