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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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Avoid error popup about loggingdll.dll in Fixpack Support Installation

Trying to install some Fixpack Support Installation (i.e. 5.5.0-TIV-KD5-FP0007) on Windows 2016 server, we receive an error popup with the message: Couldn't load LoggingDLL.dll file, Installation aborted. and a subsequent popup with the message: E...
7 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Is a defect

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
7 days ago in Instana / Python 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
7 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Group Metrics Widget Uplift

Following are the list of capabilities that we are expecting from the Group Metrics to accommodate in future : 1. Total Stats to be introduced along with Avg, Min, Max etc. 2. Chart Options to include - Table, Line Chart, Bar Chart, Gauge / Speedo...
7 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
7 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
21 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

The SevOne DI reports scheduled to FTP were overwritten

Dear Sir: We found out when we were scheduling (every weekly or monthly auto export) FTP exported the report of Data Insight. The FTP exported PDF file name of Data Insight is the same as previously file name. So the new exported file PDF will cov...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Needs more information

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
22 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted