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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 Object Summary widget to DI that automatically shows all indicator values on separate charts for the selected object.

Makes it easier to see all related indicators and their values at a glance vs. having to manually select each one. Similar to SevOne SURF object summary functionality.
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Needs more information

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
5 days ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
5 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 4 Needs more information

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 1 Needs more information

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Needs more information

NOC needs to add PDU Loss detected by Versa probes between SDWAN Tunnel Endpoints

The "Loss" Value that SevOne uses to trigger the PPM Polices is based on the FWD & REV Loss and NOT the PDU Loss. The FWD & REV Loss are not class specific and measure loss of data received in either direction. The key thing here is if, as...
3 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 5 Needs more information

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Search Box

I would love to have a "search box" where a user can enter text and the report will return the list of relevant records, such as relevant applications. this will work just like the "ehancement idea" search box on this idea page. there are no repor...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Needs more information

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information