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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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Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Under review

Include time range in exported dashboard

When exporting Dashbaords (ie/ PDF) time range seclected is not included. Thefore if ther is no time series then we have no clue on what is the time range of the shown metrics
29 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Ability to check for Integration updates through a proxy

Simple one: Include functionality in the API pod such that it is able to check for updates from Automation Library (or S3) through a proxy. Right now only the NodeJS and Worker pods can do this it seems, but it being able to do it from the API wou...
29 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Adapt number format to regional conventions for decimal and thousands separator

For European users, the display of amounts in the American format can be quite annoying. E.g. The numeric fields are formatted using the American conventions: - point as decimal separator - comma as thousands separator e.g. 880,000.00 In Germany, ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Under review

Extend AIOPS Vmware VCenter Observer to support merging of VM resources with VM resources coming from Instana Observer

Currently VMware vCenter Observer build the VM resource in AIOPS/Toplogy Manager where its name property is set to a value that we can not use to merge the same VM resource observed and populated in Topology manager by Instana Observer. Hence we n...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review