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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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Read Only Users

A Read-Only user, similar to the Observer user type in TargetProcess.The key difference here, is the Read Only user only has access to data, where they are given access to.Preferably, this becomes a User Type, making a touchless setup possible for...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Roadmaps without actual start date display

Our company creates high-level product roadmaps at the beginning of each year, using packages as a key component. Currently, the roadmap displays both planned and actual start dates for each package. While tracking deviations from the plan is valu...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Add more collection operators to filter expressions

Existing collection operators are ".Where", ".Count", and ".Contains". It would be useful to have other operators like ".sum", ".max", ".min", etc. The Metrics and Validation rules DSL support these operators; it would make sense for the filter ex...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Extended organization of favorites with folders

It would be useful to give users the possibility to organize their favorites also with folders so they can more logically group favorites in function of their use/need. It would also be interesting to allow those folders then to be shared. This m...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review