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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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List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

TopN reports CSV extract has unit in bytes

In today's world, nobody subsribes to services in bits and bytes. The unit should be either in Kbytes or MBytes so that the Customers and Service Managers can do their calculation easily
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Add agent support for Solaris Branded zones

FTAs and DAs are supported on Solaris native Global and Local zones, but are not currently supported on Solaris Branded zones.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CP4AIOps to get topology data from Meraki devices

Meraki's marketshare has exploded in serving large enterprises with cloud-managed networking in the last 5 years. Meraki now accounts for 10-20% of Cisco's switching business revenue and it is considered a leader in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant f...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration