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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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Customisation of tags cloud in detailed view

Adjust the preview of tags for the entity/entity type in the tags cloud (detailed view)
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Podman support on zLinux

Currently, the Podman beta is supported only on x86 Linux. St.of CA has a very large zLinux infra base ->> we need Podman support for zLinux
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Collecting external URLs used in Webviews

Hi all, following support ticket TS012739487 regarding flutter monitoring within Instana, we need now to have a way to collectU, within Instana, all the URLs that are getting accessed when we're using webviews in our mobile applications. Please le...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Show only menu points user has permissions for (ITP)

In IT Planning menu only sections of Spend Management/Change History/Configuration can be hidden based on permissions.  Within Section of Planning, only the subpoints Dashboard & Variance Analysis can be hidden (from Company profile).&nbs...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to import .csv as a background job and view logs at a later date

When you have a large .csv to import to adjust entities or perform a mass import, you have to keep the screen open whilst the action completes and to see the results at the end. If you navigate away (or you have a laptop issue), there is no way to...
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Future consideration

Technical Administrator User Type

It would be helpful if there could be a Technical Administrator user type/role that has most of the admin permissions but can be blocked from viewing entities in specific portfolios or processes for HR/Management use.
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration