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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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Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Add privacy configuration option to collect full IP in mobile monitoring

Background and context Users IP are masked/anonymized by default in mobile monitoring (EUM/RUM) by setting the last octet of an IPv4 address to 0. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-mobile-app-faq#are-you-an...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

To be able to use SNMP OIDs in Metadata

For example to have the serial number or software version of devices in SevOne. It would be good if this was based on device type. Each device type would then have its own snmp OID. The serial number would be requested during the discovery.
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Allow Filtering TopN views based on value (in DataInsight)

When adding a TopN widget to a report, it will currently only allow us to specify the maximum results. To give a cleaner result, it might help to add filter based on i.e. percentage. In the attached screenshot, the regular TopN view is displayed, ...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

TopN reports CSV extract has unit in bytes

In today's world, nobody subsribes to services in bits and bytes. The unit should be either in Kbytes or MBytes so that the Customers and Service Managers can do their calculation easily
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Kong Monitoring - Have a unified console page just like Kubernetes

For Kong monitoring, we currently have agents being monitored and this poses a great deal of work to figure out which agent among 100's of agents some clusters may have to know the metrics. Instead, Kong monitoring should be based on cluster level...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Is it possible to get an alert when a VM is live migrated in Azure

Is it possible to get alerts from Instana when VM is live migrated in Azure (Microsoft Alerts are inconsistent)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Ability to customize the name of New Relic targets in the Turbonomic UI

The customer has 100+ New Relic accounts he would like to add into Turbonomic and currently the only way they can be named is off the New Relic Account Number. Being able to make a customized name would solve the problem of the customer having to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

When Turbo lists “vCenter” as the source, I would like the specific vCenter noted – similar to how it lists cloud accounts.

When having multiple vCenter's this will help the client specifically identify which vCenter Turbo is recommending actions for.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration