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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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DI When adding Widget, Data settings are lost if the user navigates to another configuration tab before pressing Run.

Content creators lose time if they forget to press Run after selecting a list of Resources when creating.or modifying a Widget, and then navigate away from the Data configuration tab. Even saving a Report that has not been Run one time will lose a...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

DI Default Permissions to Public/ReadOnly when a "Template Report" is created.

Report Templates created today default to Public/ReadWrite, which allows ANY user to modify them. While this may make sense in very small deployments, larger organizations that use DI need to control who updates shared directional content like Tem...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Cannot rename/label hosts

It is easy to segregate the servers
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

for a user to share a PLAN with another users, OR ...somehow make the PLAN accessible by other users.

for a user to share a PLAN with another users, OR ...somehow make the PLAN accessible by other users. If I create a PLAN on turbonomic, I would like some other users to be able to see/run that PLAN. Need a way to share a PLAN or to make certain PL...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 5 Future consideration

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support for containerized MDM and BKMDM on two different networks

Currently, creating two domain manager docker containers in one host machine, but on different docker networks, does not work. These DMs do not connect. Would like to have official support for having two containerized domain managers hosted on dif...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Allow Instana data source in Grafana to "Skip TLS verify" when using proxy

The Instana plugin in Grafana doesn't work if you use the proxy mode and the Instana on-prem uses a self signed certificate. You get this error message:Proxy request failed" err="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Most other data sourc...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration