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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...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

ADD HISTORICAL TAB IN GLOBAL SDWAN HEALTH SUMMARY REPORT -> PPM ALERTS HISTORY

VERIZON is currently rolling out a new service called SD-WAN Threshold-PPM (Proactive Performance Monitoring). While working with the beta customers ST MICRO and FIDELITY TIER 0 we saw the requirement for a tab that shows us historical PPM data. I...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 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.
over 1 year 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. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Case TS015515700 - MTTRapd probe - SNMP V3 credentials issue - SHA512 support

In UAT/Dev we have come across three devices which are using SHA512 as SNMP V3 credentials As of now, MTTrapd probe we have at is not supporting SHA512 and we have opened a PMR for this issue. Below is the response in PMR The details for the mttra...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration