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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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Add ability to send a link to a folder – the recipient would see the folder highlighted in their UI

Ability to send a link to a folder should be added and if possible, the recipient should see the folder highlighted in their User Interface.
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Cannot remove yourself as owner of a view even if there is another owner assigned

Cannot remove yourself as owner of a view even if there is another owner assigned. Attaching the screenshot of the issue for better understanding.
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Agent update from Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who prefers manually trigger agent updates from Instana dashboard. At the moment we have a button "Update Agent" which works when Instana agent has access to the Internet. Many of our customer use Instana and mo...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Include license costs in the rightsizing opportunity calculation

It has come to our attention that the savings opportunity shown in the cloudability rightsizing are not inclusive of licensing costs, as a result saving potential is being understated for resources that would also see a license save as a result of...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Needs more information

Display of age of alerts in DI in the alerts details widget

In the alerts details widget, currently, we have FirstTime and LastTime for the alerts. If we can display the age of the alerts [ currenttime - firsttime ] in words [ a day ago, a week ago, etc.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Transfer of report ownership

Currently, when a user who is inactivated (reports owned by that user becomes inactive for other users with whom it is shared with)Admins cannot update the ownership of such reports nor can Admins identify the reports/views owned by inactivated us...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

SNMP Poll end device using context

At our service line, we monitor customer devices deployed on their premises using SNMP polling to ensure availability. Currently, our customers encountering a failover issue between 5G and PPPoE when IPSEC is configured on the LAN side. To address...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
3 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 0 Submitted

Categorization option for Filter Values

This idea is based on the case TS018542103. Categorizing in the custom quick filter is currently not possible as each and every custom entity is a unique entity itself. It would be great to be able to also have the option to cluster the values in ...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 1 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration