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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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Reports should have an increased number of pivots

Currently, when the number of pivots exceed a certain number, the report errors out with " Too much pivot columns for <column name>;. Please, apply additional filters or change report settings. " This limitation should be addressed and the n...
1 day ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Mike Hofmann

The instana kafka sensor is monitoring kafka with zookeeper config only. ZK is deprecated in future releases of kafka and will be replaced by kRaft. We have need to monitor a kafka/KRaft setup. This AHA request is a follow-up of case opened for th...
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

cloudability/metrics-agent which supports for k8s 1.32

Hi Team, We are planning to update our kubernetes cluster version to 1.32 but currently cloudability metrics agent not supporting k8s-1.32 version, Can you please provide the information about cloudability/metrics-agent which supports for k8s 1.32...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
8 days ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted

Monitoring Microsoft Hyper-V

We must be able to monitor Microsoft Hyper-V.
14 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Mechanism to prevent the same instance of a widget from repeatedly sending requests when there is no response to a previous request

Currently, DASH triggers multiple GET requests from widgets to the corresponding datasets, driven by an update timer. However, when a request does not receive a response, DASH lacks a mechanism to stop repeated requests from the same widget instan...
23 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Ability to schedule the enabling and disabling of calculations in Calc Management

Currently to either disable to enable stage calculating through Calc Management (Project Calculation Management) this is needed to be done manually. The idea would be the ability to set a schedule to either enable or disable stage calcs for indivi...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review