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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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Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Customer would like to show router redundancy per device in either a tab or a Network View

Customer is on ITNM 4.2 FP14 and would like to have the "show router redundancy" per device either in a tab or in a Network View.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Defining metrics collection with filter on resources name (or equivalent way to avoid colecting ALL of that metric), as a way to scale the deployment.

We have enabled collection of metric from APM (Dynatrace) and the definition of the connection do not allow to define filtering for the resources we are interested on, so enabling metrics that applied to many resources will cause a big amount of K...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for string value collection and storage

Today, there are a handful of devices that expose data as stringtype, e.g. "up", "down", "active", "standby". Enhance SevOnes collection and storage engines to allow strings to be handled by the system.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

publish Agent release notes with every Agent release

Currently some agents are pinned to a specific version, whilst other dynamic agents auto update. We control which versions are deployed where this way to ensure problems that occurred in the past do not reoccur. Updating pinned agents currently is...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Allow HTTP actions to be created with insecure API endpoint

When creating a HTTP action, if you enter a API endpoint that beings with just http, not https, you get the following error message: "This field must be a valid https URL or start with a parameter of type 'string'. Either allow http endpoints (ver...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Jobtype Job Stream Submission flag optional

Verify the possibility of Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Job type Job Stream Submission flag optional. We currently have customers using version 9.4 and have set this option which is default when creating new jobs. From version 10...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Not under consideration