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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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Override the Entity in the Event SDK

We are using event sdk within our OpenShift environment. https://www.instana.com/docs/api/agent/#event-sdk-web-service We are able to trigger events from within a pod, but they come in listed as an entitytype of Host. We would like these events to...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor Mongo Atlas API via HTTP proxy

All egress traffic must traverse an http proxy, so in order for an Instana Agent that is deployed within our environment to read the Mongo Atlas API, we require the agent configuration to support a configuration of a http proxy. This may also be r...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Multiple period thresholds

This is about the TNCP threshold enhancements. The following is a simplified example of a typical Cell performance violation escalation scenario by the customer. Use Case: Threshold violation detection for 3G Cells across multiple periods...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Future consideration

Warn, alert, highlight containers with Root privileges

Please highlight with a specific color deployments and containers that are running with root privileges, allow to trigger alarm on this. Probably for those who does not have open policy agent it could be a first step or to add some value for those...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

TWS job and job stream char limit increase

pmr 744070,082,00 This PMR addresses the question about the jobstream character limit. I found that a request has been made to change the character limit for both jobstream and job names from 16 and 40 to 40 and 64 respectively. I tested the jobst...
over 13 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

At Predefined Reports JS should be analyzed.

Regarding Queries at "Predifined Reports" corresponds only at Jobs. It would be good, when it will be possible to correspont to Job Streams
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support `docker run` arguments to enable customers/partners to use IEAM

IEAM (and open-horizon) should support a wider range ofdocker runarguments? I frequently encounter IBMers, partners, and customers who use Docker currently but they use arguments like the following that we don't currently support inhttps://github....
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 1 Future consideration

REST GET nsm/work

Requesting new NSM GET URI for work. Originally requested in RFE 88570.nsm /work/{id}nsm /work/{id}/tasknsm /work/{id}/task/{task-id}nsm /work/created/after/{date}nsm /work/created/before/{date}nsm /work/requesttype/{requesttype}nsm /work/state/{s...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration