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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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OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Need instana support for kubernetes traefik

Many customers using kubernetes tracfik as their web server in China mainland. We need instana support for Kubernete tracfik to development business.
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

High Availability for the JDBC2 Gateway

The customer would like to ensure that gateways are running all the time and if the primary server [gateway] goes down then secondary should be available.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Make action execution limits a per-target configuration via UI

Today, we can limit concurrent actions as one line in the yaml. This setting applies to all targets and is only adjustable via command line. This idea is to allow for us to modify this setting on a per-target level and through the UI. Additionally...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Not under consideration

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Identify layouts used by users

Can there be something built to identify public layouts that are used by users, this would mean we can easily remove layouts that are no longer in use. There is no function to identify this currently. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Datalink Annual scheduler option

 There is a monthly, Day in Period, Weekly, Daily, and Custom range, but it would be really helpful if there was either an annual or if the day in period was customizable to day in fiscal year or calendar year.  For our use case I have t...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

ASM to support for file checksum on SD bulk job from aaionap service

SD bulk sync API should support passing file checksum in header from aaionap ASM should validate that each bulk sync file received from SD matches the checksum Checksum should be optional in API header; if it exists, then perform check, otherwise not
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration