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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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Alerts for required time only.

We have some application running in Day time and 5 days a week and don't want to monitor alerts after hour. If we can add time frame while creating alert that will give the user to ability to set alerts for specific time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Push plans from planning to a branch using ADM

Would like to be able have branch as an option to push a plan to a Cost Transparency branch.
8 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

Dynamically SNMP Credentials change acceptance

Enhancement request in processing dynamically SNMP Credentials change(made to SnmpStackSecurityInfo.cfg via CLI/GUI) by ITNM and minimize downtime of Monitoring via Poller processes. Keeping, new security policies in mind, would required this func...
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

ITM for Omegamon doesn't support Microsoft Crypto Api and/or Windows keystore

keyfile.kdb maintaining for ITM Omegamon is unflexible and makes certificate maintenance very time-consuming.Updates overwrite user specific settings. So we were forced to implement a customer specific kdb with special name to avoid this. Maintain...
8 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Future consideration

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
8 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration