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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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Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
15 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Deprecation field for ART and ST

It is really weird that TargetProcess has depricated / Active/Inactive flag available for Portfolios and Teams however this is not available for Agile Release Train and Solution Train.As a large organization these keeps changing for us, wishing th...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

API to delete business mapping entries while leaving the business mapping itself

At present, one must replace existing mappings with a dummy mapping to remove entries. Keeping the mapping itself is needed for automation as it's id is needed.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Rightsizing Widget: Increase Data Window from 10 to 30 Days

Currently, the Rightsizing widget displays data for only the past 10 days, but based on suggestion from ticket TS019147686, we propose extending this to a 30-day range.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Allow Anomaly Alerts to be sent to Jira

Please could we use the existing Cloudability Jira Cloud integration that is currently used by Rightsizing ROI to generate a Jira task for an Anomaly alert.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0

reduce alerts for Redundant Application Servers SAP

s it possible to use the SAP message server (which has an overview of all application servers) to monitor the application servers, in order to avoid Instana raising alerts for a down server when a replica is still ensuring service continuity?
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Use SAProuter proxies to connect instana SAP sensor

Can we use SAProuter proxies (like those used by Solution Manager) instead of remote hosts for the ABAP Sensor
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Improved Weekly Time Entry Experience for TP Users

As a TP user, I need an improved user experience for weekly time entry, allowing me to quickly log time for the entire week, view the time already submitted versus the remaining, check the approval status of my timesheet, and access other relevant...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted