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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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Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
6 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Email Subscription of Reports: Increasing Character Limit, adding various fonts, hyperlinks and dynamic date in email body

University of Pennsylvania is looking to set up an email subscription to more than 200 users who can view the email in a specific format (which includes a different font of the email body- with bold, hyperlinks, dynamic dates, font options). The c...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Planned for future release

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
27 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Realized Savings Details - Add column - Date

In the Realized Savings Details does not have a date column both in the UI as well the Excel report. The suggestion is to add to add a new column to add the Date Information in this view
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Submitted

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Flow Rules and grouping Collectors

I would like a way to have a group of flow collectors in SevOne grouped then be able to use that group inside flow rules. Thus allowing me to have a USA group, An EMEA group and so on. Now I can easily say "For all flow collectors in the DNC_Japan...
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
4 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same. This will help them to communicate wioth their stakeholders that there will be discrepancy in cloud num...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted