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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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tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

sshd and security ciphers that are no longer recommended by the industry

Within SSHD.conf there are older unsupported security ciphers that the industry has recommended to be mitigated. (This was found during a network security scan) Below is an export from SSHD.conf in its original file. # Limit the Ciphers and MACs t...
12 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Openshift Service Mesh support

Instana agent on Openshift currently does not support Service Mesh bypass and monitoring .
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Device Mover GUI Updates

When using device mover it can be very easy or tedious. Adding updating functions to device mover would allow the use of it to become easier. for example adding: a larger selection box under "Device Name" the option to perform one device move by s...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

exclude a specific peer from having new devices added to it

I think it would be helpful if there was a drop down list that you could you add to "Cluster Settings" of available peers that you want to allow to be use when a new device is added, essentially adding the functionality of marking peers or HSA's a...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Monitorng issue:jvm_attach_generic with Istio AuthorizationPolicy

Now,When we use istio Authorization Policy which allow instana-agent request,Errors(Monitorng issue:jvm_attach_generic) occur. Because of "With Istio AuthorizationPolicy enabled, the problem with socket is not ready to listen to command we send fr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 4 Planned for future release

Dynatrace events connector on Watson AIOPS (AI Manager)

We are doing a project with Dynatrace as source for our Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1 platform and only could get the metrics for anomalies detection, the customer will like to have the events/alerts that are been created at the Dynatrace level,...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
about 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Key rotation values in mdm-certificate.yaml needs to updated using the main values.yaml

The key rotation is set in helm_charts/ibm-workload-automation-prod/charts/wa-server-prod/templates/mdm-certificate.yaml. Customers who deploy using the https://github.com/WorkloadAutomation/ibm-workload-automation-chart/blob/master/stable/workloa...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release