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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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Enhancement of Quick Filters to display more than 150 recent entities

Currently Quick Filters has a limitation of the entities which shows 150 recently viewed items. This makes some of them invisible unless the name will be used un the search.
12 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted

Ability to close connections better from PostgreSQL blocks

At this time, a workflow does not have the ability to directly close a PostgreSQL connect from a PostgreSQL block. As far as I am aware, they instead remain open until they time out, which is typically 10 seconds or so. This enhancement would add ...
7 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Planned for future release

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 2 Submitted

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

French Language Support in Data Insight

We are currently in a Proof of Concept with Orange Business Services in France. OBS are a Managed Service Network Provider who operate globally but 60% of their customer base is French speaking. French Language support in the product will help us ...
20 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

For SevOne DI Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics views, create performance health score summary representations at the device and location level (i.e. Jitter, Latency, MoS, etc.)

Would create a Top level Executive, Engineering Capacity and Operational Management service health performance views based on provided locations/sites/devices
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
21 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted