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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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Subnet flows in bulk

In menu Administrator > Flow configuration > Network Segment Manager This feature can add subnet one by one but the customer has more than 10K subnet, It very hard to add these one by one So I need to NMS can add/edit/delete also can multipl...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Functionality already exists

Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Request an add-on managing SAP Financial Closing Cockpit

The business want Workload Scheduler to manage SAP Financial Closing Cockpit processes just as it does all other SAP jobs. They would like a seamless tool to automate all SAP processes. SAP Financial Closing Cockpit Add-On supports integration wit...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Supporting aio-pika 6.7.1 library for Python application

Hi, We our Python application makes calls to RabbitMQ by using aio-pika library and in Instana we dont see these calls.Could you please look at it and add supporting this library?Thank you.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - Add support for WinRM connectivity

Why is it useful? - This would give a (more?) secure option to connect to Windows servers, which is built in to the OS, instead of requiring SSH Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this, particul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Latency Timings for PageTransistions

Instana monitors PageLoads and PageTransistions. For PageLoads we see Latency, Traffic, Errors. For PageTransision we also want to monitor Latency as it is available for for Page Loads. We want to have this metrics available for PageTransistions o...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Active Transactions running at threads in Pods on Kubernetes called as "X-Active" is required.

There are dominent competitors against Instana in Korea Market.All of them are providing the feature called as "X-Active" that monitors active transactions running in pods on Kubernetes whether or not their state are normal or pending and provides...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Oracle agent (RZ) alert log monitor needs to handle a CDB/PDB setup where ORA-errors are now not at the beginning of the alert log entry

This is necessary else there would be no alert log monitoring capability (alerts missed)
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Percentage calculation between two filters

Hello, I wanted to submit an idea for a feature as i came across different usecases that could be fulfilled with instana's data. The idea would be to be able to calculate a percentage between two filters and be able to :- display it on a dashboard...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Planned for future release

Metadata attribute to be added to Webhook's General Variables to be used as tag for routing alerts, assignments etc.

Most of SevOne customers have alerts integrated into external Event Management or Service Management system. Having tag that indicating to which operations support group the alert is forwarded would help customers to enhance alert processing makin...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration