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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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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

make rate of two custom events alertable

Currently we are able to create eg. smart alerts on a metrik over custom range of http between codes >= 400 and <= 500. But there is no way to relate that to another metrik e.g. custom range of http codes between >= 200 and < 400 as 'g...
6 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 6 Functionality already exists

Get logged in user of DASH in JSP widgets

If you want to build connections with other systems, it is useful to be able to correctly identify the logged in user.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 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

Perform Sandbox Refresh

As an admin, I would like the ability to perform a sandbox refresh.  We refresh our sandbox on a monthly basis, and it would be helpful if there were an option for the admin team to go in and schedule the refresh on our own as opposed to open...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 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 Under review

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.
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Allow HTTP actions to be created with insecure API endpoint

When creating a HTTP action, if you enter a API endpoint that beings with just http, not https, you get the following error message: "This field must be a valid https URL or start with a parameter of type 'string'. Either allow http endpoints (ver...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration