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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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Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Add alert archive widget to DI

It would be very useful to show alerts that have cleared in the past X amount of time. Works similar to the alert archive feature in NMS. Also needs to work with variables.
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Data Insight Report Widgets should allow the customer to save a report without choosing a resource.

At the moment when the customer copies a template to create a new report DI requires the customer to choose an object or group for the widgets within the report. This requirement causes issues with reports that have large object counts, and the cu...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 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

WebGUI event viewer selected event export as CSV tool option

The event viewer allows copy+paste of events but these have no separator. We need a tool to export selected events in the event viewer to a CSV/XLS file for use with a spreadsheet. This allows users to discuss and share event details easier, for t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

Allow better group search/filtration

Reposting TURBO-I-342 because it was incorrectly closed. Do not close this and mark it as "already exists" because it doesn't. We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best espe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to Self-Service Catalog

There were some Features in the 9.4 Self-Service Catalog that our Business Partners depended on as critical functions. We would like some form of these functions / requirements returned to the 10.1+ Self-Service Catalog - The ability to see the ex...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration