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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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Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Policy Historical Helper: In the policy editor, add a feature that will help determine if the policy has the correct settings by using historical data.

It would help admins determine if the new policy or policy changes will catch the expected events. Otherwise, users would have to wait for future events to see if the policy had the desired results. In a separate tab in the Policy Editor, display ...
8 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Instana email notification does not include status and other important fields for alert condition

Client has reported that the email content does not include alert payload e.g. threshold, metric, status. Lack of status field does not let client effectively use email notifications for additional processing of the event. Request is to add all al...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

Instana tracing support for monitoring Dynamics AX 2012 ERP

Performance monitor our Dynamics AX 2012 R3 solution, which are our ERP system, and primary data accumulator. We want a special focus on SQL performance. The software running our Dynamics AX solutions is: Dynamics AX AOS server (.net application),...
8 months ago in Instana / .NET / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Mesaage bus probe support Authetication other than basic

Message bus should support other authentcation like okta other than just basic authentication . We currently have message bus probe to which external system posts alarm to it via webhook . However the message bus probe only accepts basic authetica...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support of nvp_get function in restriction filters of OMNIbusEventReader

We need a policy to be executed by an OMNIbusEventReader when an nvp_attribute has a specific value. At the moment, nvp_get does not work if used in the restriction filter of an OMNIbusEventReader. The policy to be triggered is not being executed ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration