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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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Instana Reporting Capability

We have notice that Instana does not have reporting capabilities like Grafana reporting or Tivoli Common Reporting. We are requesting to add following reporting capabilities: Automated Scheduling: Schedule regular reports, including daily, weekly,...
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
3 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Oracle OpenTelemetry link to db.sqlid.value to open monitor in new window

- Configure a Global link on Opentelemetry data-field: Db.sqlid (might want to make it generic.) - Link opens a predefined link https://<link>/<db.sqlid.value > in a new window. When a user clicks the value to db.sqlid, it opens a new ...
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

instana enterprise operator

With the latest kubectl-intana Instana enterprise operator starting from version 1.0.0 onward, the tools with option 'version image-list' couldn't provide component info in an airgap environment or an environment without cluster connection. 1. The...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Cloudability for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

SAP Business Technology Platform is an innovation platform optimised for SAP applications in the cloud and a PaaS cloud computing service offered by SAP.More than 16,000 cloud customers are using BTP, and due to the Transformation to S/4HANA, more...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page. So i request instana team to list DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Servi...
4 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted