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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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save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics ad stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
8 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
9 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
9 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
27 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Functionality to integrate with MAS (Maximo Application Suite) for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc

Raised on behalf of Telecom Egypt: "What we need is to have a functionality to integrate with MAS for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc. I took an example of what is already implemented in AIOPS which is “ServiceNow”, this is...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

We would like for the default comparison operator in Maintenance mode to default to the "in" operator.

Per our NOC, they would find it easer to setup Maintenance Mode when the default operator is set to "in" rather than the "=". Please reference IBM PMR Case TS016792091.
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

NodeJS npm @instana/collector – deno support

Currently, there isn't native support for the @instana/collector package in Deno, as Deno handles npm packages differently than Node.js, particularly when it comes to lifecycle scripts like the ones required by the @instana/collector. These script...
10 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted