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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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Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
2 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
19 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
27 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
5 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Cloudability support for AWS & Azure China

Our company is using Cloudability globally to manage all public clouds except for AWS & Azure in China. We'd like to have consistent way to manage FinOps in our global estate. Can Cloudability start to ingest data from AWS & Azure China.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Add ability to configure and schedule discovery start time

Customers need configurable discovery start time to minimize service disruption during peak usage.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Submitted

NMS needs to contain functionality pre process SNMP String type values and based on identifiable returned string values assign an integer/number value and record that as the associated indicator metric value.

Within the area of responsibility for Verizon GTS there are several hundred SNMP objects that need to be tracked the return a STRING value instead of a number or integer. Many of the strings are fixed. e.g. a status code of "active" vs "inactive"....
28 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration