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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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Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Export ApptioBI widget to PNG or JPEG

This will be useful for including ApptioBI graphs in presentations rather than using a screenshot.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Workload Automation - Databricks Plugin Improvements

IWA Databricks plugin should be improved in the visualization and interaction capabilities with the Databricks workflow: - Plugin should have the ability to view tasks (which are part of Databrick jobs) - Plugin should have the ability to rerun/co...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Request to Add IP Address Restriction for Instana Tenants

[Request] Datadog already has an IP address restriction*, but Instana does not. *https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/org_settings/ip_allowlist/ Our customers have strict security requirements, so they have set up a jump server specifical...
17 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Submitted

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
5 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Ability to check Audit logs in the UI

Hi Team, I thought that having an option of showing the audit logs in our Turbo UI would be great. For example, in our Legacy PMC UI, if you are an Admin user, you can go and check all the users' actions. This can come in handy for huge Organizati...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Increase the granularity of DynamoDB metrics to support hourly basis analysis

The idea is to have the metrics for a few products persistent on an hourly basis so the users can do a deeper analysis of their usage. Today, the customer is using a tool from AWS Marketplace called CUDOS to do that. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blog...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted