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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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AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

User preveilages on Events and Alerts

We need to know how to manage Permissions for user/group for: User able to create event on his infrastructure scope / zone. it means that user can create event with threshold for cpu for example on his authorized host zone ONLY. and he can not see...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Pre-requisites for OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy

Now OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy requires Kubernetes, but it is too tough to use it in our customer's environment because the workload for deployment and management is too heavy. Also about micro-k8S, it is not acceptable for our customer be...
10 months ago in Instana 1 Delivered

Support for NGINX 1.25 Alpine tracing on K8s/OCP

Right now support is available up to 1.24 alpine. We would need support for 1.25 alpine to trace calls going through the NGINX running on K8s/OCP
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Delivered

Human time readable format instead of Unix time format in CSV download

Data insight is the visualisation later for the metric collected by SevOne. All reports are meant to be consumed by the customers in a graphically appealing visual format. While downloading the exported data in the csv format, the timestamp should...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Email integration with the atlassian status page - Need dynamic configuration to be added as placeholder in email alert notification .

We would like up and down keyword to be send in email subject to integrate instana synthetic monitor with the atlassian status page as the email component only works in that way. Atlassian requirement : https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/doc...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered