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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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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 ...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Excel import with dynamic worksheet names

Currently, there are two options for designating which worksheet should be loaded in the import step: No name specified and first worksheet is loaded A fixed worksheet name is specified and cannot be changed It would be amazing to add an option ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Search in Event viewer under 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' doesn't search for the element if within correlated group

When we search in the Event viewer 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' view, the search doesn't work. If the element is part of a correlated group, search doesn't work to identify the group or element. We have to then default the view and search on the flat vie...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these requests.
12 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Dynamic navigation option from a table - links to specific reports depending on table row contents

Looking for a way of providing user dynamic and tailorable navigation to specific use case reports from a single source.  In this case to get to use cases for specific Service Names in the service taxonomy - potentially a report per Service N...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Allow more than one servicenow observer job to run which will allow us to improve observation times and more control over when/what we collect

At the moment whilst you can create more than one servicenow observer job, it is pretty useless as even though they have different job names and a different set of classes associated in discovery what tends to happen is that you might have a job t...
12 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Servicenow-Observer to provide ability to discover relationships tables separately from resource discovery

At present when discovering resources from servicenow we specify the tables to collect data from and have to be explicit with the parent and child classes because whilst resources can be discovered from the parent class and it traverses the childr...
12 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration