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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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.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Is a defect

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
9 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Bringing network topology onto ASM GIS map

The customer is running AIOPS 1.6.12 and ASM 1.1.21. We have the GIS map with aggregated data points on the GIS map representing vertices with GIS Lat/Long data. They also have topology based UI with vertices and edges but no capability to bring G...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
7 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Dashboards: Add the setting to Hide Empty Lanes for list widgets

It's only possible to hide empty lanes if you open the full screen version of the view. It would be useful to have this setting controlled on the widget level.
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Dashboard: Add a widget option with a text table

It's possible to add a harcoded table to the text widget, however, in order to add/remove row a column, you need to hardcode another table. It would be useful to have the option of the ready table where you can add the text alongside with the text...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
29 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted