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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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Flow widget to display total traffic with different visualizations

At the moment when using flow widget we can display total traffic with table visualization. If we change to for example line chart or bar chart we no longer have total traffic, only "remaining traffic". If you would like to have line chart of flow...
13 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

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
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 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...
18 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

We should have an option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 1 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

Allow Filtering TopN views based on value (in DataInsight)

When adding a TopN widget to a report, it will currently only allow us to specify the maximum results. To give a cleaner result, it might help to add filter based on i.e. percentage. In the attached screenshot, the regular TopN view is displayed, ...
4 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Limitation to load 10K records in the Service List

Major Telcos could have more than 10K Services. The SOA architecture limitation does not allow more than 10K services to be shown in a single page. The DI widgets provide search option only within the current page which is not a good user experience.
4 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

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
4 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...
4 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted