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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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Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 2 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0

Save Filter, Group and Facet settings in Analytics, like Infrastructure saved filters

Analytics is great, however is a burden to repeat the filter/group criterias, and sometimes also the facets. I know, I could get the shortlink to the panel, but what happens if I miss the link ? Yes, redo everything from scratch. Please consider t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Multicloud Manager supports helm v3, not only helm v2.

Now I feel Multicloud Manager can deploy and manage lifecycle remote cluster's Application only from helm v2 chart. My potential customer, OMRON (large precision equipment manufacturer in Japan), expect they can deploy and manage their helm v3 cha...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review