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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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Netflow Flow Interface Manager should include a warning that advises the customer all previously recorded netflow data for a given flow interface will be deleted when purging the flow interface.

Currently there is no warning the data will be lost.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Siebel Tracing and Monitoring with IBM Instana

We want to monitor Oracle Siebel application and have installed Instana agent on Oracle Siebel servers. We can see siebel in the list of discovered applications however, we are unable to view its API calls. only /siebel api can be seen and we are ...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Increase number of Stati in table view

In the table widget of DASH we can specify 4 differene conditions which leads to five different stati. As we have the requirement to show more icons we would like to increase the limit. It should be an easy change to allow more than 5 stati.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Restrict addition of Percentage columns in Apptio -Non-summable

We have an option to restrict row totals in Apptio for any field (By selecting Summable/Non-summable option in the formula ). But the same option is not working fine when the column total is happening. Percentage values cannot be summable, the cal...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review