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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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Arithmetic operations on dashboard widgets

The customer wants to be able to create a widget using simple operations (x % / + -...).One of the use cases is creating the widget displaying the count per minute so they have to divide the average by 60 which is not yet possible.
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Planned for future release

Ability to connect Prometheus endpoint to applicable Instana entity

When collecting Prometheus Endpoints within Application pods all "prom applications" are listed on the host level. This isn't practible as it is not feasible to link them anyhow to the entity (in this case the pod).
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Make Trace Latency = Trace Duration rather than duration of Root Span

In asynchronous processes this can disguise the true duration of a business process and prevent Instana from being able to alert when customers are having a bad experience.
almost 5 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC. Same user should not be able to access DWC from different browsers or systems at the same time.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Filetransfer-plugin for IWS 9.5.x does not support datasets on z/OS (MVS) that are migrated by DFHSM

In TWS 9.3 everything is working fine. When a dataset on z/OS is migrated by DFHSM (the storage-administrator of MVS / z/OS) and TWS (agent or MDM) is trying to upload to, or download from, z/OS, the filetransfer-plugin does an alloc of this datas...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release