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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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Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
4 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Log Anomaly Detection Alerts need improvement

The alerts generated by Log Anomaly Detection don't give an indication as to what the issue is. The Alert Summary only contains the template name. The Summary should be more user friendly..something like "log message xxxxxxx occurred x times" it t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Topology REST API for the Service Now

We need to expose the Topology REST API for the Service Now team to consume. However, the authentication of the API is limited to HTTP Basic, and current the only available username/password pair is from a K8s secret. As confirm by this support ti...
2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
4 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review