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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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2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Specify request & limits of pod Leader Elector

In https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/blob/main/instana-agent/values.yaml the Instana agent has defined cpu & memory requests and limits, see line 89.However, for the leader elector there are none. As a consequence the leader elector takes...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 7 Functionality already exists

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Add a new time option for configuring an Event

The only current time option is the "time window". It would be much appreciated if there is another time option to specify the time for which an event will only trigger if the conditions are met continually during that time. For instance, if we se...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Would like Instana to support the writing of the agent logs to the syslog system - See support request 30210

We have both aix and linux agents. We had both agents successfully writing to our syslog for quite some time (> 9 months). Recently (perhaps 6 weeks ago), after we upgraded our agents, the aix agent no longer writes to the syslog. The linux age...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Mouse over on link or device icon in ncp_gis [NetKitMapWidget.jsp] shows fixed data. Add Custom Fields

the columns in the event or topology list are fixed. All that can be altered is whether or not the current columns are displayed, you can't alter the filter to display other columns. So we need some facilitation or enabled to add user specific fields
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

API: Support EntityId->Host parameter in query to get all Snapshots of a single Host

Introduction: In an Enterprise Context, Instana contains valueable informations about running software on single machines or clusters, when an Agent is installed. With the current API it is hard to replicate UI functionalities, like showing all pr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Capability to create custom roles in addition to the available standard roles

ICP is missing custom role creation option as per APIC 2018.4.1.0. It will give admins the flexibility to create the purposely build custom roles to cater the need of individual teams. Example: New role with the standard viewer plus access to the...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

NOI Network Health Dashboard does not support Load Balancer rul properly

This is happening on NOI 1.4.1.When launching Network Health Dashboard, the Percentage Availability Widget is not able to display data and it is showing Data retrieval error in our Environment. Further checking with IBM Support and found that it i...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists