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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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Message Bus Probe basic auth user expanded

The basic authentication user account only allows for a single username and password. This might work well in a very small company, but gets more challenging in a larger organization. What would make this more useful is to allow the basic auth use...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Support MongoDB Atlas properly

Please support MongoDB Atlas properly, so multiple clusters can be setup sepeartely.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Network Visibility

Due to the increasingly complex nature of the network, we spend a lot of time tracking down connectivity issues. These issues might be due to an unknown firewall rule, a misconfigured network policy, or incorrect routing setup in Kubernetes. Addin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Filtering on Custom "memo" columns

Would like the ability to filter on custom "memo' columns.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

MessageBus XML gateway: Custom HTTPHeaders property

The MessageBus XML gateway should offer a Property for usage in HTTP Transport (in httpTransport.properties) which allows custom HTTP header fields to be defined, which then get sent out in the outgoing HTTP requests. So, What is asked is: A prope...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Method for dealing with Webhook Calls to Endpoints that are Throttled (HTTP 429)

When using webhooks from Turbonomic, some of the endpoints we can call are throttled. Because of this, when we make multiple calls at scale, many of our calls will receive a 429 and fail. For example, AWS Lambda functions only allow 10 API calls p...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Needs to add Cluster Storage Drive Data in Instana

Team, our Dell S2D platform Cluster Storage information is not reported in Instana portal. Instana only reporting the specific Node native drives but not the cluster volumes.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration