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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 built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
15 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Submitted

Expansion of Portfolio to Korea Hosting(MS Azure-Seoul)

As per the link on the page below, KT has signed a strategic partnership with MS. https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/28/kt-corporation-and-microsoft-take-giant-step-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea/ KT Cloud, a subsidiary of KT, has a plan to ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Call Turbonomic API using SSO/SAML credential/token (not local user)

We can only execute APIs using a local user or Oauth. So, we have 2 problems: a) local user can't be protected like an SSO user (like when using Azure AD for conditional access); b) Oauth authentication in Turbo for APIs makes the Turbonomic an Oa...

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...

When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
4 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Enable "Databases" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Databases" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs & opportunities for Databases service as well.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for "Volumes (Disks)" service as well.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Object Storage" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Object Storage" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for Object Storage service as well.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment.

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment, currently only pdf is supported. This is useful specially for NXN reports. PFA scheduled mail which has only pdf report. The csv needs to be extracted manually.
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration