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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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Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
26 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
21 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

French Language Support in Data Insight

We are currently in a Proof of Concept with Orange Business Services in France. OBS are a Managed Service Network Provider who operate globally but 60% of their customer base is French speaking. French Language support in the product will help us ...
13 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
14 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
28 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
26 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted