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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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Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
16 days ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ 0 Submitted

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 0 Under review

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
17 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Under review

API Support for "Configure Endpoint Mapping"

We would like to request the addition of a public API to support automation of "Configure Endpoint Mapping" for services within Instana. Currently, this functionality is only available via the UI, making it difficult to configure multiple endpoint...
3 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
3 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Is it possible to do delta measurements between values within DI. For example if i want to look at these column for max and min and find the delta between the two values.

For better visibility in Data Insight. This is as per user request.
3 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Be able to search a port number under Flow Configuration -> Protocols and Services -> "Service Mapping" tab or export to file for search.

In NMS tool, looking at flow data under Protocols and Services... how do I find TCP port 36450 and what it is linked to? Finding TCP under Protocols is easy but finding what 36450 is linked to under Service Mapping is hard * I haven't found a way ...
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Request for Dual Stack Flow Processing – IPv4 and IPv6 Support

This enhancement would enable the customer to adopt and upgrade to an IPv6-based underlay alongside their existing Cisco SD-WAN service. Currently, Viptela supports only IPv4 traffic, and does not process IPv6 flows. This limitation becomes eviden...
4 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Under review

Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
4 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review