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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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Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration

Quick add, drag&drop, prioritization, customization of columns and filtering for fourth level (sub-level) in lists

Currently quick add and drag&drop are only available for entities selected in view setup (lets call this first "three levels", when both axes are selected). So called "fourth level" (which user cannot select, as it is hardcoded in the system) ...
over 10 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Get metrics from Instana to use in Argo Rollouts

As is known, Argo is currently the top opensource tool to make deployments. Argo Rollouts extends the capability of ArgoCD and provided features as blue/green deployment or canary deployments. As you might know Canary deployments work in the follo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Improvement of Display Contents for UNDO Tablespace Usage

The status of the extents in the UNDO tablespace is listed as follows on DBA_UNDO_EXTENTS (oracle.com) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16338_01/server.112/b56311/statviews_5078.htm: ACTIVE EXPIRED UNEXPIRED However, according to information from Oracl...
6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Identify environment Cloudability email generated from

Case #TS017536579 - Cloudability currently can't indicate on generated email reports, what environment it is coming from. If customer has sandbox and production, can't tell what environment report was generated from.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

All configuration items involving Alerts should allow the usage of all fields from the Alert schema including custom fields

AIOps enables the extension of the alert schema with custom fields and these should be able to be used in the configuration of the system. This would include: In the "Add Menu Item" dialogue All fields should show in the list of columns selectable...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration