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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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Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8

Expand parking functionaly beyond cloud VMs

Parking employs API calls to stop and start VMs running in the cloud. But why limit it to that? Understandably, the functionality was built for that particular and valuable use case, but it would be advantageous to extend that functionality to any...

Get Last Filter Value

When using the Get Last Filter Value function in HTML for a drill report, we want the function (or a new function) to show the user the value that they just clicked to perform the drill. In theory, the thing they clicked is the exact last filter a...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Javascript map files should not be downloaded repeatedly

The Website monitoring supports minified javascript through parsing of mapping files. However these mapping files are not cached by Instana so they are downloaded repeatedly. For big applications this means millions of downloads of files which are...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

To customize HTTP Header for the native OAuth Provider.

For the API Connect native OAuth flow, after the completion of the authentication by AU/AZ server, API Connect will trigger an API call to the AU/AZ server to confirm the confirmation code. However, we found that the HTTP Header of the API is empt...
about 1 month ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Please add the Workstations Status code on DWC Listing workstations. eg MDM (IJ MDEA) or FTA (LTI JW MD) BMDM (LTI JW MD A)

quick and easy view to see if the workstations have not got their correct status codes. Also we know where the EventProcessor is , without clicking multiply times to discover it. (simple GUI)
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

ability to monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 0

Kong monitoring with all the metrics!!

As on today, Kong is available for monitoring through instana, but with limited metrics on which we can put alerting. Below metrics are not available for alert metric to be setup as event. Since it is not completely available, we are not able to p...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Validate deployment on Nutanix

Customers are looking at Nutanix as an alternative to Broadcom/VMware. This requrest is to support deploying SevOne NPM on Nutanix virtualization.
5 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Future consideration