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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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Use websockets to establish communication between MCM Cluster Hub and the managed cluster (Public Cloud)

Sometimes the cluster hub could be installed in a data center with several security restrictions, with some exceptions the customer could open the outbound traffic to internet, in order to manage another cluster like EKS, AKS, etc. but at the end ...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Customer wants the ability to change the DI login logo to a custom logo which is possible in the NMS but not in DI.

Customer requested it and it makes sense given that it already works in the NMS.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

ADD HISTORICAL TAB IN GLOBAL SDWAN HEALTH SUMMARY REPORT -> PPM ALERTS HISTORY

VERIZON is currently rolling out a new service called SD-WAN Threshold-PPM (Proactive Performance Monitoring). While working with the beta customers ST MICRO and FIDELITY TIER 0 we saw the requirement for a tab that shows us historical PPM data. I...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Run FlightRadar and Instana Agent together

Unfortunately it is not possible to run FlightRadar and Instana together. This has been confirmed with our Engineering Team.Need a supported way to solve this issue , we already know about the incompatible agent workaround. To resolve the issue, r...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration