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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 monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

Defining metrics collection with filter on resources name (or equivalent way to avoid colecting ALL of that metric), as a way to scale the deployment.

We have enabled collection of metric from APM (Dynatrace) and the definition of the connection do not allow to define filtering for the resources we are interested on, so enabling metrics that applied to many resources will cause a big amount of K...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow ability to not actually suspend hosts, but put them in a state where no VMs will be placed on them

The way that our infrastructure is set up does not respond kindly to host suspend/power off actions, but we want to be able to densify our current environment. We'd like the ability to enable "suspend host" such that we can operate efficiently on ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon DynamoDB (Turbonomic)

Many of our customers (including potential customers) use AWS Dynamo DB, and the support for it is the key to Turbonomic's penetration to the Japanese market and customers' higher satisfaction. Your prompt cooperation to our idea would be highly a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Add metrics for AWS plugin

Disney is looking to collect additional metrics for their AWS monitoring.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Future consideration

publish Agent release notes with every Agent release

Currently some agents are pinned to a specific version, whilst other dynamic agents auto update. We control which versions are deployed where this way to ensure problems that occurred in the past do not reoccur. Updating pinned agents currently is...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

To be able to control how broker jobs execute, alphabetically vs based on start time.

Currently dynamic broker jobs execute in alphabetical order and if jobs back up for any reason, then jobs at higher alphabet order execute first and lower alphabet jobs wait even though start time was in past. This causes SLA's to be missed and no...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Flow reporting should have the options to be more device agnostic and have more dynamic selection capabilities, other than the selection of filters that are done within the widget definition.

The ideal option would be a pop-up selection window (selecting something where the variables are currently placed). Provides options such as: 1. Select a client/server role and then select from a list such as a network segment or host grouping tha...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
9 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration