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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 a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
19 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
20 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Cloudability | Optimize -> Rightsizing -> Filters -> Status

Under Optimize - > Rightsizing menu under Azure there are resources displayed which has tickets created and tickets are in Done state. Would be great to have opportunity to filter out (exclude alll Done tickets) tickets with status "Done". That...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted. This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
about 1 month ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Adapt number format to regional conventions for decimal and thousands separator

For European users, the display of amounts in the American format can be quite annoying. E.g. The numeric fields are formatted using the American conventions: - point as decimal separator - comma as thousands separator e.g. 880,000.00 In Germany, ...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
6 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent logging on DASH portal enabled but limited to a configurable number

Users require having concurrent sessions enabled and set to never expire. However, with this configuration, the number of active sessions can continuously grow, potentially leading to memory leaks. To address this, we need an option to limit the n...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review