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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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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

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

Monitoring WAS in AS400/Iseries

I currently have more than 100 Websphere application servers in as400 and with instanta I cannot monitor them, so I request your help so that they have this need and the collector is created, as well as tivoli monitoring, apm, Icam
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under 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

Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
almost 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

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

Add metrics for AWS plugin

Disney is looking to collect additional metrics for their AWS monitoring.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 2 Future consideration

reduce false positives for used space on data_files for "IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for Microsoft® Applications" ITM6 agent

Add an attribute, for example 'maxsize unlimited', to attribute group 'MS SQL Database Detail' that would allow to trigger a situation only if the maxsize is not unlimited (cf with auto extend capability).
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

When an action execution is blocked by relative actions, user should be able to see the list of all those relative actions (possibly as a dependency chain)

When the action execution is blocked by relative actions, i.e with status "Action execution is blocked by related actions on this entity or destination entity." , as a user I don't have an easy way to find out which other actions are causing the b...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration