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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?
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

instana ELK plugin is not working as expected if we use someother logshipper like vector

out setup Instana version : 241 Elastic version 8.2 Kibana : Stack Management 8.2.3 vector: 0.27.0-debian if I click on pod or container link as it launching the correct kibana dashboard without any logs as there are some issue in filter string it...
12 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Customer would like to show router redundancy per device in either a tab or a Network View

Customer is on ITNM 4.2 FP14 and would like to have the "show router redundancy" per device either in a tab or in a Network View.
12 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

analytics - dynamic column width

We use Instana to log behaviour of mobile app. the issue is even with large screen, and small font, the browser cannot display properly the column, in analytics, custom events, or analytics - http request : because all column have the same size, e...
12 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic -ARM to work with GCP Cloud SQL

Need to add following capability to GCP Cloud SQL compatibility: action capabilities need to add Azure/AWS Savings Plans (vs RI's). We have visibility, actions capabilities need to add
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

Mount Point monitoring for Windows

We need to monitor Infrastructure metrics for Mount points in Windows.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Use the same "Warning" logic , when we delete a Jobstream Object , IWS will alert the user if the jobstream is used in other Jobstreams as a dependency ogic

If you DELETE a "JOB" object from the IWS database and it is included in other Jobstreams , IWS will alert/Stop the delete command because its cross referenced in other Jobstreams. If we DELETE a "CPU" object , again IWS will alert/Stop the User f...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration