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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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Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Print pdf layout in CT to consider custom colour paltette applied to a report

The print to pdf feature in Cost Transparency, prints the report using the standard colour palette. Although applying a custom colour palette to a report, the print functionality doesn't consider the custom colours.
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

Data Insight Widget - Alert Profile (Addition to Alert Details and Alert Summary Widgets)

Most Monitoring Tools have a dedicated way to tell the end user what polices your device will trigger on. We are looking for a widget that would define all applicable policies to a device. This widget would require you to select a device variable,...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

DI Reporting Sorting - Customer is NBC Universal

Posted this to the SevOne Technical channel - opening for customer. customer recently upgraded to DI 7.0.4. Is there any way to save the sorting for a certain column in DI for metadata and performance metric widgets. They would like to save certai...
29 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Enable Filter Dependency Option with Projects & Teams & Custom Quick Filters

Currently the filter dependency option does not work based on the project and team context filers. The teams filter should depend on the selection for project and other custom fields, particularly Agile Release Train. If I select my project and/or...
29 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted

New device support for ITNM Collector for Ericsson ENM EMS as tracked in case TS017711078

5G Core devices like UPF/SMF/AMF/NSSF/NRF are currently not recognized by the ITNM Collector for Ericsson ENM and thus doesn't have the support to process Discovery for these device types. Please confer with kmkodali@us.ibm.com.
29 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
29 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted