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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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Correlation Between AWS RDS and AWS Lambda Native Tracing

We propose an enhancement in Instana to improve the correlation between AWS RDS databases and services detected by AWS Lambda Native Tracing. Currently, we experience a lack of visibility and correlation between these components, which impacts our...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Attach event payload to resolve events for PagerDuty integration

Events sent via the Instana-PagerDuty integration can be routed to different alerting services inside PagerDuty based on rules triggered by certain payloads. Instana alert trigger events include this payload but resolve events do not. This means t...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

To be able to monitor PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 4 Planned for future release

Messagebus Probe WebHook should respond with WWW-Authenticate entry in header for authentication

As defined here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication : "RFC 7235 defines the HTTP authentication framework, which can be used by a server to challenge a client request, and by a client to provide authentication informa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Topology Manager Observer for Versa SD WAN

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, topology and performance. We can collect performance data with SevOne and events with Message Broker probe, the only missing part is topology.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Send notification to mailing list outside of TP

The idea is to be able to send email notification for the mailing list outside of the Targetprocess.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review