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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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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.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

nco_p_message_bus - message_bus_cisco_epnm supporting EMS server redundancy

To support redundancy at the endpoint, an enhancement is required for the probe to rotate endpoint addresses between the primary and backup servers depending on availability. EMS - Cisco EPNM Probe - nco_p_message_bus Transport - Websocket (messag...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Integration of MCM with BMC Remedy

Lots of our customer user BMC Remedy as ITSM tool, need direct integration of MCM with BMC Remedy to push Incident data. Currently we are working for a Large Telecom client which runs a BMC heavy shop from ITSM perspective. We are looking for a wo...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

Netcool WebGUI - Scope Based Event Grouping Page/Portal

On Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI - Scope based event grouping portal, one cannot re-arrange SBEG policy based on Name, Last modified or Enabled/Disbaled etc. This makes it difficult to manage the SBEG policies created.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable.
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration