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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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Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Emoji options to comments

In Jira it's possible to add emoji response to an comment. It would be great if this option were available in Targetprocess. Even a thumbs up would suffice.
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Get LDAP attributes from podified Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management (ManageIQ) documentation https://www.manageiq.org/docs/reference/latest/methods_available_for_automation/index.html#user-user includes methods to get users LDAP attributes values. However, methods do not work when using p...
6 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Possibility to add formulas into custom columns

As a TBMA, we would like to create custom columns using formulas that can calculate its value based on already existing formulas
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

AWS VPC Flow Logs Collector

Customer have application running in AWS Cloud and would like to have visibility of all traffic within VPC of all servers including Kubernetes cluster
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 0

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba - No Filtration properties available on subscribing to Event Notifiation

Probe - nco_p_huawei_u2000_corbaUnlike other CORBA probes where we have the option of filtering the alarms while subscribing to the real time alarms/Notification IRP services. nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba doesn't provide any options/properties to subs...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration