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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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OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

Selective access to logs

Similar to Applications, Infrastructure, etc. It should be possible to restrict access to logs based on specific criteria. Ideally logs would be filtered according to permissions on Applications + Infrastructure. Additionally It'd be great to eith...
9 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0

Endpoint grouping for mobile monitoring

Background & Context Endpoint grouping is very useful for monitoring REST API's. The problem we face is that we cannot properly compare endpoint traffic in backend with endpoint traffic monitored from frontend, as the endpoint grouping does no...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

TS015241046 - nco-p-patrol the probe not supported on zLinux

The customer "american express" is moving all Netcool to zLinux, when we try to install nco-p-patrol, it's not supporting. Please could you rebuild the probe to zLinux also? CC8WCEN NetcoolOMNIbus 8 Certified Probe for BMC PATROL V9 (nco-p-patrol-...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

To exclude resources from processes Dynatrace API to reduce the observer load time and the volume of the data gathered

The idea is to configure the Dynatrace observer scope by resources categories (applications, hosts, processes, services) so that it is possible to choose only some of these categories. The filter should enable the user to choose subcategories, i.e...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TADDM and Cyberark integration

An Integration between CyberArk and TADDM, so that CyberArk provides access lists to TADDM for discoveries.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release