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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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Need an efficient feature, or path (e.g. API endpoint) to export Raw Flow data from SevOne for consumption over Kafka. SDB does this, but only for metrics. Attempts to use SevOne-act (as a way to work around the SDB limitation) result in long export times, would not scale, and would not be supported by IBM.

For SevOne customers using a Data Lake architecture, who want to store/process Raw Flow data, for downstream security or other analysis/anomaly detection would find this highly valuable.
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) 1 Future consideration

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 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

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

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

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 support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

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

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration