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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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Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Planned for future release

Block ability to start Batchman during Switchplan

Following an issue with a corrupt TWS master (see TS013817687) we would like to request that something is implemented to stop anyone performing a "Batchman Start" when switch plan (or any other job/process that could result in such severe corrupti...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Coriant G30 failed custom ITNM discovery agent

The Coriant G30 device can be discovered but all elements like it's interfaces are not discovered, only chassis level and identify as network device i mean only layer 2 and no layer 3 also the neighbor device it connected to also recognised but li...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 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

Upgrading OMNIBus Probes to support the new version of NNMI (version 2020.08)

we have integration between OMNIbus and NNMI version NNMi 2019.11 and we have have to upgrade it to NNMi 2020.08. as shown in the below link that the OMNIBUS doesn't support the new version of NNMI we need Omnibus prbe upgrade to be compatible wit...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration