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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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Data Insight Should Have Hot Standby Fail Over

Currently as Data Insight is today there is no where in the core product that allows for one Data Insight appliance to fail over to a secondary Data Insight appliance in case of failure. The rest of the SevOne portfolio has this feature as part of...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Avoid error popup about loggingdll.dll in Fixpack Support Installation

Trying to install some Fixpack Support Installation (i.e. 5.5.0-TIV-KD5-FP0007) on Windows 2016 server, we receive an error popup with the message: Couldn't load LoggingDLL.dll file, Installation aborted. and a subsequent popup with the message: E...
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Is a defect

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Python 1 Planned for future release

Group Metrics Widget Uplift

Following are the list of capabilities that we are expecting from the Group Metrics to accommodate in future : 1. Total Stats to be introduced along with Avg, Min, Max etc. 2. Chart Options to include - Table, Line Chart, Bar Chart, Gauge / Speedo...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

TCAM Monitoring from SevOne SDN ACI Collector

TCAM is short for Ternary CAM. TCAM is a very precious resource and if you exhaust it you are done for. TCAMs ability to perform bulk searches of the entire content with matches based on 0’s, 1’s and * (wild card) makes it an ideal candidate for h...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time Attached screenshot for the reference Thanks Vasu
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted