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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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Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Needs more information

way to have TWSINST not start the Agent after it finishes

we like to control where the Agent runs on the AS400 iseries platform
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for GitLab integration

We are working with our business partners for Concert Proof of concepts/values. One of our partners (TCS) is looking for GitLab integration. GitLab is one of the key systems that many of their customers use. This integration is required to demonst...
about 2 months ago in Concert 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

IWS v9.4 has a clock icon that displays a selection of times when setting up time restrictions on a job stream. IWS v10.1 does not have the same functionality.

The clock icon that displays a selection of times is useful when needing to quickly select the time, especially for people working in different time zones/countries. It should work exactly how it does in IWS v9.4, rather than having to manually en...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Dynamically Include % 5XX or 4XX Count in Smart Alerts

Hi Team, I need to include below information dynamically in smart Alarming . Impacted country code which want to publish on mail. % of failure and failure count for impacted API name So request you to please include all the above information shoul...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Provide a option to select datatype when creating a View in CP4AIOps Alerts page

When a view is created on the CP4AIOps Alerts page, all fields under the Details/Resource sections are treated as strings by default. However, these sections can contain custom fields that are not strings, such as datetime fields. As a result, cus...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review