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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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Provide a means to automate creating NOI Incidents from Events in NOI - to be used for the customer for a consolidated view of thier issue with a easily added URL

Customer coming to NOI Dashboard with lot of events - can be overwhelmed and will not want to use the noise interface - while the consolidated view in the NOI Incident Module is consolidated to thier issue(s).
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Increase MessageLevel logging for http interface separated from setting for the ObjectServer.

To increase logging for curl command control (making a POST request with a JSON body) sent. Now we have only messages about clients connected.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Set alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage

Please add option to set the event/alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage in Instana events section.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

ITM for Omegamon (TEPS functionality) should support passphrases

ITM 6.3.0 FP7 SP2/SP5 does not support passphrases. Currently ITM limitations are as follows: 1) up to 50 characters 2) For Distributed system, the acceptable characters are as following - For tacmd login those characters are between the brackets ...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 9 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard Trafficlight widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for multiple SaaS Clients connecting to SaaS instance

Today, one can only connect one SaaS Client to a Turbo SaaS instance. But there are examples where customers have multiple datacenters that do not have network connectivity between them. Because of this, they need a SaaS Client in each datacenter ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Message Bus Probe - opt in/out for Updated JSON parser to remove any new lines in incoming event values

The update made to Message Bus Probe with this: PATCH probe-nco-p-message-bus-22 REVISION 1 - Updated JSON parser to remove any new lines in incoming event values before sending to Non-native process. This is causing huge issues in how we process ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review