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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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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

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

SSO Validation for Targetprocess for a token

The security that is currently set up does not meet standards and is concerning that users can access when they shouldn't. For example if a service account token is shared and then a particular user leaves the company because the service account i...
24 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
24 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Supergroup parent should Inherit of Journals from merger groups' parent event

Currently, when a supergroup is created, it doesn't have journal from the merged group's parent events. Lots of customers populate custom fields of parent events based on probable cause or first event in the groups. In absence of complete informat...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

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

Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review