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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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Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service
2 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

Anomaly - Customer wants to replace the Cost Total with Cost Amortized metric

Anomaly Detection - Customer wants to replace the Cost Total with Cost Amortized metric
2 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Azure App Service PHP Support

We would like Azure App Service to natively support PHP, as our current workaround involves installing the agent in the startup script. This approach is not convenient for our operations and impacts efficiency.
2 days ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted

Adding "Call Name" and "HTTP URL" as group options in the "Analytics > Applications > Traces" view.

In the "Analytics > Applications > Calls" view, we understand that there are many group options, such as by "Call Name" or "HTTP URL." However, the customer has requested that similar group options be available on a per-trace basis as well. ...
2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Venafi authentication no longer supported.

RNA appears to be using a deprecated "API Key" authentication mechanism instead of OAuth."When I try to perform any Venafi operation I get: HTTP Error 401 API keys are deprecated. Instead, you should be using an API integration and a vedauth/Autho...
3 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Extend AIOPS Vmware VCenter Observer to support merging of VM resources with VM resources coming from Instana Observer

Currently VMware vCenter Observer build the VM resource in AIOPS/Toplogy Manager where its name property is set to a value that we can not use to merge the same VM resource observed and populated in Topology manager by Instana Observer. Hence we n...
3 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

The "Task" should be customizable in process defintion

As all other term in the process definiton the task should also be customizable. As all other workitems it should be possible to give it in a process another term. Now the term "Task" will be translated according to your language settings, which c...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted