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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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TopN reports CSV extract has unit in bytes

In today's world, nobody subsribes to services in bits and bytes. The unit should be either in Kbytes or MBytes so that the Customers and Service Managers can do their calculation easily
24 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
24 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Kong Monitoring - Have a unified console page just like Kubernetes

For Kong monitoring, we currently have agents being monitored and this poses a great deal of work to figure out which agent among 100's of agents some clusters may have to know the metrics. Instead, Kong monitoring should be based on cluster level...
25 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Data Insight Should Have Hot Standby Fail Over

Currently as Data Insight is today there is no where in the core product that allows for one Data Insight appliance to fail over to a secondary Data Insight appliance in case of failure. The rest of the SevOne portfolio has this feature as part of...
25 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Improve Percentage Calculation in Big Number Widget

We need the Big Number widget to accurately calculate and display percentages for metrics like users or sessions affected by crashes or errors. Currently, selecting the percentage option simply multiplies the number by 100, rather than calculating...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
25 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Avoid error popup about loggingdll.dll in Fixpack Support Installation

Trying to install some Fixpack Support Installation (i.e. 5.5.0-TIV-KD5-FP0007) on Windows 2016 server, we receive an error popup with the message: Couldn't load LoggingDLL.dll file, Installation aborted. and a subsequent popup with the message: E...
25 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Is a defect

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
25 days ago in Instana / Python 1 Planned for future release