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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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Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Under review

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 3 Under review

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0

Add privacy configuration option to collect full IP in mobile monitoring

Background and context Users IP are masked/anonymized by default in mobile monitoring (EUM/RUM) by setting the last octet of an IPv4 address to 0. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-mobile-app-faq#are-you-an...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Method for dealing with Webhook Calls to Endpoints that are Throttled (HTTP 429)

When using webhooks from Turbonomic, some of the endpoints we can call are throttled. Because of this, when we make multiple calls at scale, many of our calls will receive a 429 and fail. For example, AWS Lambda functions only allow 10 API calls p...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Enable Discovery Functionality on Mttrapd Probe Version 21.1

After the Engine boot and Engine time move out of sync between the remote device and probe cache. Currently the new Mttrapd probe 21.1 is not enabled with the discovery functionality to handshake with the device to learn the SNMPv3 EngineBoot and ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Export/Send Page from Action Details Dashboard

From the Action Details page (for a specific resource), there should be a way to export the dashboard view or email a read only link to a stakeholder who you wish to share the finding details, in order to seek approval to Execute Action. It's not ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration