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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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Allow for re-calculation of indicator of seconds/minutes/time

If creating a report based on indicators that have values in seconds, such as system uptime, DI should provide me the choice to change what the display shows. If the indicator normally displays as seconds, allow me to select days instead and show ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Create additional fields for interfaces collected by the SevOne Observer for AIOps

1) In the current version of the SevOne Observer, there is no way to associate interface into a resource group. There is no field to identify what device a interface belongs to. A field should be added to the interface record that includes the dev...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
14 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
14 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
14 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
26 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted