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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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Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
about 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
10 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Request to extend the Fixpack download functionality via GetMQFix.jar for ITX and ITCAM Products

TS017232118 We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/s...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 3 Not under consideration

Modify or Clone / Duplicate "builtin event"

The built event work in most of the cases but for some specific environment some values need to be adjust in order to avoid false positive. Instead of disabling the builtint and create a new one from scratch it would be nice to have a "clone fonct...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration