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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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Need to be able to schedule CSV file delivery

My customer require the ability to get reports in CSV file formats for incorporation into they're own reporting.
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Planned for future release

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
10 months ago in Instana / Common 1

A list of all Data Insight Report and Maps owners should be a feature for DI admins, to export, in tabular format

DI users have requested that a Data Insight administrator user should be able to export a list of reports and maps. Several support tickets have been opened for this. It is possible to generate a list of reports with owners on the DI backend. Ther...
23 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Submitted

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

Project cost savings based on parking schedules

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the ability to project cost savings based on parking schedules and resources selected, so that I can predict and plan for the cost savings associated with parking the workloads.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Export directly in xls or xlsx format

It would be useful to have the possibility to directly export into a more common Excel format next to the csv format.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Extended organization of favorites with folders

It would be useful to give users the possibility to organize their favorites also with folders so they can more logically group favorites in function of their use/need. It would also be interesting to allow those folders then to be shared. This m...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review