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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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Log message body information sent via OpenTelemetry

Forwarding Golang and Nodejs application logs which are deployed in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to Instana agent or Instana backend via fluentbit using OpenTelemetry exporter
10 months ago in Instana / Logging 7 Not under consideration

Probe to connect to mailbox using Graph API

We have a requirement to monitor the mailbox and generate the alert. As per the current Probe functionality it only supports Microsoft EWS API to connect to mailbox. Barclays does not support EWS any more, it only supports Graph API. Also EWS is g...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Allow to alert only on new, unique errors

For front-end browser errors in particular, it would be very helpful to receive alerts for new errors, which are unique based on their error message and source code position. Instana already contains the concept of unique JavaScript errors based o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Future consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

SOL005 observer request

A dynamic virtualized network topology in telco needs sol005 interface.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Data Retention after Out of Memory error.

IBM Support Ticket TS014348006 describes a scenario where data in Instana is removed after a JVM on a host suffers an Out of Memory error. We can understand why data would not be available from the time of the error and until service is restored, ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration