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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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SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
27 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
28 days ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Under review

Grafana Instana Plugin dashboard features

We have integrated the Instana with Grafana for dashboarding and have observed that some of the below features are missing which will help in creating better dashboards for customers. 1) TopN - To show the top N Utilized nodes 2) Option to filter ...
15 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
15 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Improve the Dynatrace integration so that it is useful: Proper proxy support and entity selection

The legacy Dynatrace Observer, which only pulled Topology, allowed for specific Dynatrace entities to be selected via the Dynatrace entitySelector syntax used to query the Dynatrace APIs, which allowed for granular determination as to which topolo...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Supergroup parent should Inherit of Journals from merger groups' parent event

Currently, when a supergroup is created, it doesn't have journal from the merged group's parent events. Lots of customers populate custom fields of parent events based on probable cause or first event in the groups. In absence of complete informat...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration needs to support the objects included in the JSON format

The current Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration should be able to parse the current Elastic Common Schema as defined here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-log.html
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Under review

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review