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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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COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Incident Policy Condition set to include relative time Comparision to add delay/wait time for triggering policy

Introduce a condition in the Incident Policy that allows for relative time comparison, enabling the addition of delay or wait time before triggering actions or incidents. This helps better control of the incident creation and avoids false positives.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
6 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Under review

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Enable the "Apply Filters Dependency" for dashboard filters.

Currently, the dashboard filters do not apply filter dependencies, which forces user to type their options in the filters and sometime when the list expands beyond 150, it doesn't even appear.  Enabling this will elevate the user expereince....
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 1 Under review

Multiple SSH Integrations

Allowing multiple ssh integrations in AIOps will allows an administratior creating the runbooks to select different jump hosts/ssh hosts to run the SSH Scripts. This will be quite helpful in scenarios where the client network is segregated into di...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review