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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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Have a way to duplicate a Group (from the GUI) into a new Group with a different name

We would like a way to copy/duplicate individual Group. This will be very useful especially for Groups that has complex filtering or has lots of static members. This will not only make group creation much faster in certain cases. (e.g. if the new ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Dynamically SNMP Credentials change acceptance

Enhancement request in processing dynamically SNMP Credentials change(made to SnmpStackSecurityInfo.cfg via CLI/GUI) by ITNM and minimize downtime of Monitoring via Poller processes. Keeping, new security policies in mind, would required this func...
5 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

ITM for Omegamon doesn't support Microsoft Crypto Api and/or Windows keystore

keyfile.kdb maintaining for ITM Omegamon is unflexible and makes certificate maintenance very time-consuming.Updates overwrite user specific settings. So we were forced to implement a customer specific kdb with special name to avoid this. Maintain...
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Under review

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 3 Under review

the process to update the SSL certificate needs to be better supported by the documentation

Customers (not just this one) have spent HOURS in VI editing the yaml file trying to get the cert to work. This will reduce customer frustration and improve the feeling towards our product. The current documentation (which is very good ) is here -...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Future consideration