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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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Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib. Event if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisionning, it is still a bad practive to overprovision that much storage. In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage b...

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...
7 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls.

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls, so that we can export the data of certain duration & see how many calls, errors & latency was there for multiple applications. This would be useful while analyzing the applications performanc...
9 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
10 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 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...
23 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Latency Alerts in http requests in Mobile Apps perpective

We believe that adding latency alerts in Instana's mobile app dashboard would significantly enhance our monitoring capabilities. Currently, while we can observe the latency of Android app calls, we are unable to create smart alerts based on this m...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
11 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 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