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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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Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

NMS needs to contain functionality pre process SNMP String type values and based on identifiable returned string values assign an integer/number value and record that as the associated indicator metric value.

Within the area of responsibility for Verizon GTS there are several hundred SNMP objects that need to be tracked the return a STRING value instead of a number or integer. Many of the strings are fixed. e.g. a status code of "active" vs "inactive"....
about 22 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

[Turbonomics] - Chef Automate

As a part of using RNA with Turbonomics, we would like to integrate with Chef as a part of the process. https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/ OpenAPI Spec: https://docs.chef.io/automate-api-docs/all-apis.swagger.json
5 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
7 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
22 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Call Turbonomic API using SSO/SAML credential/token (not local user)

We can only execute APIs using a local user or Oauth. So, we have 2 problems: a) local user can't be protected like an SSO user (like when using Azure AD for conditional access); b) Oauth authentication in Turbo for APIs makes the Turbonomic an Oa...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 3 Planned for future release

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Avoid error popup about loggingdll.dll in Fixpack Support Installation

Trying to install some Fixpack Support Installation (i.e. 5.5.0-TIV-KD5-FP0007) on Windows 2016 server, we receive an error popup with the message: Couldn't load LoggingDLL.dll file, Installation aborted. and a subsequent popup with the message: E...
about 8 hours ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Python 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted