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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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Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Allow ServiceNow integration test block to use different ServiceNow APIs

At this time, the ServiceNow Integration Test block uses the Scorecards API from ServiceNow in order to do it's testing. This requires the following roles to actually perform the test: snc_platform_rest_api_accessrest_api_explorerMaybe pa_viewer r...
12 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
12 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Rightsizing Preferences - More exclusion instance type values

Currently we are able to add only 10 instance type values which is blocking us to exclude more instance type as per our organization standard. IBM cloudability team should allow client to provide more values and there should be dropdown available ...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

SDP support for Azure Managed Identity authentication with Kafka-compatible interface to Azure Event Hub

For SDP (Kafka), SevOne does not currently support Azure Managed Identity directly for Azure Event Hub. Can we add this feature?
7 days ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) 0 Submitted