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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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Events (Syslog and SNMP Traps) parsing tool - Drag & Drop Capabilities

Why is it useful? Existing and new customers spend a lot of time doing the parsing of events received by generic probes (as syslog, snmp, glf, etc) since those include a generic rules file. However, most of them have custom Object Servers Columns ...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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 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...
over 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.
over 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1