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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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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...
24 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Submitted

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
9 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Adding Maintenance Window for Object/Object Group

We currently have the capability to add maintenance windows for devices in SevOne. However, we need to extend this functionality to specific interfaces or objects. We request the addition of Maintenance Windows at the object level, allowing for ma...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

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

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted

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

We would like for the default comparison operator in Maintenance mode to default to the "in" operator.

Per our NOC, they would find it easer to setup Maintenance Mode when the default operator is set to "in" rather than the "=". Please reference IBM PMR Case TS016792091.
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

NodeJS npm @instana/collector – deno support

Currently, there isn't native support for the @instana/collector package in Deno, as Deno handles npm packages differently than Node.js, particularly when it comes to lifecycle scripts like the ones required by the @instana/collector. These script...
4 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted