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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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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...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Details around a versioned table in the pipeline step

As a user I would like to be able to identify where a version in a table has happened and when. We would like to include it in the pipeline step shown in the image below, therefore, it is obvious there is a version and the document does not have t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 3

Expand parking functionaly beyond cloud VMs

Parking employs API calls to stop and start VMs running in the cloud. But why limit it to that? Understandably, the functionality was built for that particular and valuable use case, but it would be advantageous to extend that functionality to any...

Get Last Filter Value

When using the Get Last Filter Value function in HTML for a drill report, we want the function (or a new function) to show the user the value that they just clicked to perform the drill. In theory, the thing they clicked is the exact last filter a...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Javascript map files should not be downloaded repeatedly

The Website monitoring supports minified javascript through parsing of mapping files. However these mapping files are not cached by Instana so they are downloaded repeatedly. For big applications this means millions of downloads of files which are...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

To customize HTTP Header for the native OAuth Provider.

For the API Connect native OAuth flow, after the completion of the authentication by AU/AZ server, API Connect will trigger an API call to the AU/AZ server to confirm the confirmation code. However, we found that the HTTP Header of the API is empt...
about 2 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted