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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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Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege

To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege
19 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Validate deployment on Nutanix

Customers are looking at Nutanix as an alternative to Broadcom/VMware. This requrest is to support deploying SevOne NPM on Nutanix virtualization.
20 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Future consideration

Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
6 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Send alert config id in alert notification

We are currently struggeling to correlate, which alert config has caused a notification being sent to our notification channel. It would be helpful to also receive a deep link to the alert config.
6 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
6 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

new feature requests that are specific to BFD in NMS

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a fast fault detection mechanism based on RFC 5880. After a BFD session is established between two systems. We want to monitor the status of the bfd protocol configured on cisco devices through sevone. C...
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Provide a feature to Disable/Block the tracing of a few specific API calls from the EndUser monitoring

We have started using Instana EUM feature and found that it is tracing and tracking a lot of APIs calls to our feature flag service which we would like to disbale them from Instana. -Ashwin
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above

Title: Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above Detail: Instana's current support for monitoring Ceph covers the version Pacific and below. We are using Ceph version Quincy (v6) and we would like Instana to support this version and above. Th...
11 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted