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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 for database replication on on premises deploy (MySQL)

In this case we are using the OVA deployment connected to externa DB (MySQL) and the idea is to have the database in cluster mode using group replication to have a better availability of the environment.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Extend thread dump with viable thread details

The Instana thread dump does not contain the following meta information of a thread: Priority (prio): the priority of the threadJava ID (tid): the unique ID given by the JVMNative ID (nid): the unique ID given by the OS Please add these details as...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Use traditional Netcool OMNIbus icon in Connectors

Netcool is a legend! Give credit to its history and give us back our beloved Netcool OMNIbus icon. The large user base will be pleased and grateful.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Java profiling for windows OS

It gives developers continuous and historical code-level view of application performance that is essential for locating CPU, memory allocation and I/O hot spots as well as latency bottlenecks. Benefits anyone who is hosting Java on windows machine...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1

Set alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage

Please add option to set the event/alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage in Instana events section.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of Custom Application Error Codes by Instana

The customer uses Instana for Unified Payment Interface application monitoring. They want to monitor error codes generated by UPI application by Instana.
9 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Functionality already exists