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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 job time dependency to be set relative to job stream input arrival to fix timezone DST issue

Allow job time dependencies to be set relative to the job stream input arrival time rather than from the Plan start time as it is currently. This is important for scheduling where the time zone of the workstation has different Daylight Savings tim...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Unified UI for DASH(Cloud) and ITNM(On-premise)

For Telus customer, we are deploying the NOI on cloud(Redhat Openshift) and ITNM on on-premise VM. Customer is looking for a single place to access all the GUI components (WebGUI, Impact, ITNM) . It is very easy to access the GUI in single place t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Snow ticket creation after reading data from Excel which stores various details wrt to job

We have a requirement to automate the ticket creation using SNOW. All the IWA job details and the agreed priority (when there is a job failure) is stored in a separate Smartsheet. IWA will read data from Smartsheet to determine the priority and ot...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

MQ Series Monitoring Agent: Include the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers) support in ITCAM for Messaging agents.

The Monitoring team has been received a demand from MQ team about their new environment in the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers). Usually the new environment is composed of 3 servers, with one service active and the others in stand-by. But, ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Can SevOne Ingest JSON records as flow records?

We are using the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and have found a way to write the telemetry data out to a NFS mount point. It some out in a stream of multiple changing files. Below is a example of the output of the file. It looks to give us much m...
11 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Future consideration

Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
11 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration