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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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Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Support tracing of ICAP-calls (protocol technology support)

Hello,we have service application using ICAP protocol to send and receive data to be virus scanned.It would be awesome to see this calls in Instana
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Needs more information

Adding Support for importing device configurations from an EMS system that manage non IP-Based Devices

EMS systems can manage group of devices that could not be accessable from ITNCM. These devices are optical or wireless devices (non-IP based) so ITNCM will not be able to access these devices. If IBM can provide a connector to gather device config...
2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Needs more information

Add a possibility to set pre-filter in the inner list of detailed view

Pre-filter would increase the visbility in the inner lists add field for the accounts with many entities and potentially leads to lower amount of mistakenly added entities.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Needs more information

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Needs more information

Project field to be mandatory for all tabs

Currently, the project field is only mandatory for the labor activity tab but would like to make this mandatory for all tabs.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Include Events and Status data in Apptio BI

Current the Events and Status features do not allow you to easily find the data without exporting to excel and this data is not available in BI. It would be good to add features like group and filter to these reports but also to use in the BI reports
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics
3 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Needs more information