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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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New function in Impact for dealing with special characters

As suggested in case, we would like to suggest creating new function for handling special characters. In rules file for probe exists similar function called printable(). In situation when event need to be updated through Impact policy and event co...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Add information in the DISCEVNT tables to improve reporting capabilities of discovery events

Reporting of discovery events, especially when using non-standard SensorNames (for example "SessionSenssor for non-anchors") os un-necessarily complicated because information about sensorName, and target IP, and targetIP_AddressScope are not repre...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Display journal entries as a field in the EventViewer view

There should be a journal entries field available on EventViewer view as its very useful for monitoring team who manages the events where they can see recent journal updates and no need to open journal every time. This will reduce time of user whi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Cloudflare Workers Tracing for JavaScript

We'd like to be able to trace requests through CloudFlare workers as they act as a gateway and frontend into the rest our application infrastructure.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Node / Other Tracers 3 Future consideration

Adding application Management Functionalities to the Edge Application Manager to manage the resources and applications in the Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU

Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU will be wide used in the future to push the processing from the cloud computing to the edge computing, our idea is to satisfy the needs of the Edge Data Fabric.
about 1 year ago in Edge Application Manager 0 Planned for future release

ability to remove MFA/2FA from users who lost their MFA device

We often run into the situation where the user loses an Instana MFA/2FA device, and to re-enable the user, we have to raise a ticket to wipe the user and re-create the user from scratch. So this can be easily fixed by giving Instana admins the opt...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Grace Period "None" Option

I set up an event to detect JVM Offline incidents and set it as a critical condition, when this is detected an alert is raised and sent to our Teams channel for my team to react to. Following a critical alert we get a grace period alert which is n...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Is a defect

Submit folder

We want to be able to submit a folder, with all its jobs/streams/dependencies into the plan. Just like you can submit an existing stream or job into the plan.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration