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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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Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

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

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under 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

Optionally test links as well as page components

Testing a page and the CSS, JS and images that make it up ensures the page is "complete" and works well for transactional websites. For content heavy websites, it's often helpful to also test the pages linked to from the test page. That is especia...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

Resource Filtering for Mediation Packs in Predictive Insights

It's currently only possible to filter on Metrics being pushed into Spark/Cassandra, being able to further filter and exclude resources deemed unimportant will help refine and focus Metrics being consumed by the Analytics engine and therefore gene...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Durable Topic Subscription in JMS Probe

For high availability, we need to have a durable subscription for the MQ topic which pushes events into the Message Bus Probe. We are using a JMS subscription to push these events. We have noticed that other probes than the Message Bus Probe suppo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration