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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 to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 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

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

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Forward slots from event custom fields as part of the body when using a outgoing webhook to forward incidents to a external event management tool

When forwarding events via the outgoing webhook integration to an external event management tool (BMC Truesight Operations Manager) i.e. CPU, Filesystem, swap space etc. We only see event info and resource affected slots passed with the body. Key ...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 4 Not under consideration

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
about 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Cross teams/areas 3