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Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Mass "insufficient authority" errors in a log for SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

Dear Colleagues, due to security policies the customer is not able to grant access to the special queue. Hence they experience the following error in a log: Error: 2025-05-20T07:10:58.879Z AMQ8077W: Entity 'mqumon01' has insufficient authority to ...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

telnet monitoring using synthetic check

Add a new feature for telnet monitoring using the synthetic check.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 7 Delivered

HCL AppScan

API Doc: https://cloud.appscan.com/swagger/#/
3 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

Cloudability- Enhance reporting filters to allow multi selection of values

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I often need to report on multiple values relating to services, accounts, account group tags, etc. It's a cumbersome user experience to have to add a filter for each case. By adding a multi-select ...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Delivered

IDOT release needed on kubernetes/OpenShift for OpenTelemetry support

One of our customers is attempting to transition their monitoring from a typical Instana deployment to a pure OTEL solution. They would like a fully supported solution rather than leveraging open source OTEL collectors. Today, we have IDOT collect...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Add support for Redis setup in cluster mode

Add s upport for clustering in Redis in Instana collectors
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 2 Delivered

User/Idle Session timeout should make currently open page unreadable

This is to improve Instana Security Footprint. When Instana UI User/Idle Session timeout triggers, only a small red popup on top right is shown saying you need to reautenticate, but the currently open page is still readable , potenially exposing s...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 7 Delivered

AWS Plugin - Synthetic Indicators

As opposed to using REST API to create calculation poller data, we would be able to define expressions that use the pollable fields to create new AWS objects for metrics. (Examples of this can include In and Out metrics translated from their bits/...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 2 Delivered

reduce alerts for Redundant Application Servers SAP

s it possible to use the SAP message server (which has an overview of all application servers) to monitor the application servers, in order to avoid Instana raising alerts for a down server when a replica is still ensuring service continuity?
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered